When I got to mom this morning, she was dressed and sitting in her wheelchair, watching TV and reading a magazine. The respiratory therapist told me that mom had a few periods of sleep apnea last night at 3 a.m. so they put her on the vent with a setting of 10. She said that it wasn’t anything terrible, but more that they were short staffed, which is why mom was on the vent this morning when I arrived too. She put mom back on CPAP mode (off the vent) after we spoke. I told her that mom is supposed to go off the vent during the day starting tomorrow. She said that the night people tend to err with caution. The respiratory therapist asked how mom is doing because she hasn’t seen her in 2 weeks. I updated her and she said she wanted to work with mom a bit and either read to scripture verses from her book to her or talk to her… I thought that was really sweet. Mom sees the neurologist on Wednesday afternoon.
Mom and I began to use stencils today. I brought some from Lenny when he was little. Mom was able to trace some dinosaurs!! Next we began to do the Word Search book that Claudia made and she circled 2 words with prompting but then Ant, Con and the kids came so we shifted to cutting with scissors since the kids were making snowflakes to hang in the room. Mom was all smiles when Sammy came into the room and said Hi! Anthony had mom laughing again as usual too! Mom listened as everyone talked and she and the kids cut with the scissors all afternoon. That’s all she wanted to do today. It was a fun activity because she was engaging with the kids. Anthony worked on her legs and tried to get her to lift them. She raised her right leg 2 times and her left leg once. John and Claudia came to see mom too for a while, so did Terry. They said she was talking a lot today. When I came back around dinner time, mom was being put back in bed. I tried to see if I could get her to do some writing but she wouldn’t do it. I brought her the Holiday House Tour booklet from Islip Town and she sat and read it for hours (she would read and fall asleep and read and fall asleep). JoAnn came to visit mom tonight! She is here from New Jersey.
Mom still isn’t able to integrate everything at once. If she is working on fine motor skills with her hands, then she isn’t talking much or moving her legs. If she is moving her legs, she isn’t doing much fine motor or talking. She has made strides with her fine motor skills at the end of the week and her leg lifting has seemed to decrease. Eventually, she will get it all together and be able to do many things at once again.
“Under His direction the whole body is fitted together perfectly, and each part in its own special way helps the other parts.” Ephesians 4:16
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