Today was Ava’s 18th birthday. Mom’s vent level is still raised to the middle level (not the CPAP level which is the lowest setting) and is set on 10 since yesterday. I didn’t see any of the respiratory therapists in order to ask about why this was so. Mom had seemed to be doing so well on the CPAP level for 2 ½ days and then it was raised yesterday. I guess this will be a slow process. Sometimes when I am with mom, it is almost as if she is deaf because I can talk to her or call her, and she appears not to hear me at all. The same is true for her vision on and off. Sometimes she can talk a lot and sometimes she just sits silently too. The brain is a mysterious organ.
John and Ava started the day with mom. They did her physical therapy and talked to her. Mom said, “Happy Birthday” to Ava. Mom fell asleep. Claudia arrived and found mom asleep and was told that mom would be getting a shower soon, so Claudia left for a while and came back later. Dad, Anthony, Con, Anthony Michael, Samantha, Claudia and Terry all visited with mom throughout the day at various times. Dad said that mom laughed on and off at funny things that Anthony was doing and saying. Mom answered some questions dad asked her too. Claudia said mom was quiet while she visited with dad and fell asleep on and off. Mom fell asleep while Anthony and Con were visiting too. Anthony and Con did mom’s physical therapy too. Lenny and Ava came to see mom later in the afternoon. Dad said that mom enjoyed all the visitors and attention. When I arrived to see mom, only dad and Terry were left with her and mom fell asleep on and off a lot until about 7:30 p.m. Mom and I watched TV together (M.A.S.H.) while I did homework. She played with her piggies and a cloth I bought for her that has a sewn-in pathway with beans in it that you move through the path. She appeared to be wide awake from 7:30 onward until I left.
“Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing.” Isaiah 43:18-19
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