My 91 year old mother told my sister I've been poisoning her to get her money.

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She threw me out of her house this week because I took her car keys out of her hand and wouldn't give them back.

And there is no money. She pays my rent out of her social security. Her home is on a reverse mortgage. She just sold it with the understanding that she's going to San Diego to live with my sister. When the reverse mortgage is paid, plus taxes and fees, there isn't going to be much.

She's been phoning us to tell us how much she hates us.

We have a whole network of people who are happy to check in on her and help her, take her to appointments, anything but anyone who knows us is now tainted and not allowed near her.

On her PCP's advice, we called 911 the day I took the keys but the the EMS said she passed their competence questions and was in no immediate physical danger that would warrant taking her against her will. But they also didn't favor giving back the keys. Next morning the police called me from her house because she'd called them to report her stolen keys. I assume they declined to arrest me.

In the past two weeks, among other things, she has forgotten how to turn off the car lights forcing a battery recharge.

Forgotten how to lower the sound on her TV remote.

Forgotten how to retrieve stored numbers on her phone.

Forgotten how to make a call. Although that has come back.

Forgotten how to turn off her car's alarm.

She has atrial fibrillation, lymphoma, recent surgery for melanoma of the eye, and bone cancer in her hip.

And dark, dark memories.

Mother and daughters we have been three-on-a-call close on the phone more than once a day when not actually together.

Nothing we've planned prepared us for this. We don't know what to do.