Mother's Day

Today we have a great adventure... I want to travel to the desert to see my new granddaughter; a Mother's Day gift to myself. I'm going to try to take my mother along. There are a few challenges.

First we have to get her out of bed. This is often much harder than it sounds. Sometimes she sleeps all day and I think if the house was on fire, it would take two of us to get her out of here.
Sometimes she wakes easily but refuses to dress. This is doable when she's chosen to wear her clothes to bed the night before. Weird, but doable.
It would be great if we could do some personal hygiene before we go, but that scenario often becomes so traumatic for her that expecting to follow that with an outing seems like abuse. Which of us is abused is unclear.
Then we have to get her to agree to go outside. Once outside, it's been easy so far to get her into the car.
She's only once tried to open the car door while we were moving, so things should go relatively smoothly until we get to the hospital (Isabella was a month early, so our first visit with her will be there.) Could someone please explain to me how she can easily find the car door handle when she can't find the bathroom door most of the time?
It's a hundred degrees in the desert today, so her usual decision to stay in the car will not be an option. Under other weather conditions, we could do the round robin thing where one of us stays with her, while the others visit, but today we just have to hope we find the opportunity to easily get her into the waiting room.

Will update later. Time to institute step one....

UPDATED 8:30 p.m.
Things went unbelievably smoothly including something that was incredibly touching...
We had a "Welcome to the Family" card for Isabella and one of the girls gave it to Nana to sign. When Nana asked what she was doing with it, the reply was,"You're signing it. It's for your brand new great grandbaby who was born Monday."
She signed it, "I love you. Nana"
She was walking around really well, though with her unsteady, drifting gait. She hasn't walked that much in almost a year. Six months ago, I 'd never had believed I see it again, but she's consistently becoming physically more stable since we've removed her medications. Risperdal was the first to go because her living situation no longer warranted it. Then slowly removed the Aricept because of concern of interactions with Melatonin which I really wanted to try her on. Finally we decided to end the Namenda as well because our observation indicated she had passed the point where there was value to her taking it. It was the right decision for her. She's much, much better all around than she was when we brought her home in January.