Today is Aunt Sophie’s 94th Birthday!!!!! We all went out to eat with her (she is at mom and
dad’s house).
Anthony, Con and the kids began the day with mom. They said she was awake and relaxed. Dad and Terry came too. I guess mom just sat and stared but I am not sure—all they wrote on our daily log was “awake and relaxed.”
After we had dinner with Aunt Sophie, Anthony, Con, Clauida, John, Aunt Sophie, Dad, Terry, JoAnn and I came back to visit with mom. Mom was alert, awake and smiling a lot. She laughed when John came in because he was wearing a face mask and told her he was some silly doctor. Claudia wrote on the white board, “Wipe your nose” at one point and mom mouthed it. Mom was trying to reach her nose but couldn’t and then we put a tissue in her hand and she did manage to reach it. Claudia wrote on the white board and gave mom a tissue to hold so that she could erase what Claudia drew or wrote on the board. Mom did actually move the tissue on the board a little bit, then Claudia did hand over hand prompting to help mom do it. Mom’s CNA came in to check on her and tried to take mom’s hand but the CNA didn’t realize that mom was holding dad’s hand---and mom grabbed dad’s hand tighter and resisted moving toward the CNA, as if to say, “Hey, that’s my man.”
Later, when Anthony, Con, John and Aunt Sophie left, we tried to do the IPAD with mom. We started using an APP (this is a game of sorts) that shows an actual mouth of a person (that whole area of the face). While looking at the face, the person on the screen gives a verbal prompt to model the facial/mouth movement being shown on the screen. For example, a mouth area of a face appears on the screen and you hear a person saying, “Pucker lips like this and hold” Then the person on the IPAD counts for a count of 3 seconds while making the face. The person watching the IPAD face then has to model the face being shown. Claudia had to put her fingers on mom’s mouth in order to prompt mom and to move mom’s lips for her—mom was receptive to that. She didn’t resist. At times, mom was attentive to the program, and other times, she wasn’t. One of the nurses told me today that she noticed that mom was much more alert. We also tried the alphabet with the IPAD APP that showed an actual mouth saying the letters. Mom watched and listened for a while but then fell asleep. When we use the IPAD with mom, we put headphones on her in order to block out extraneous noise and help her focus. The nurse commented that when she spoke to mom, mom turned to look at her and even mouthed something to her (mom did this twice with the nurse today).
Mom fell asleep so we left and took dad to the movies. We saw "The Way Home" true story and very good! Dad enjoyed it a lot (mom would have loved it). After the movie, JoAnn and I went back to tuck mom in and pray. She was awake and watching TV when I got to her room. I dimmed the lights and put on the timer on the TV and tucked her in and prayed with her.
"Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need." Matthew 6:33
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