Lenny began the day with mom this morning and he found her sound asleep and out like a light. He and the CNA and the nurse tried to wake mom but they couldn’t. Everyone told Lenny that mom was OK and just soundly sleeping---based on her blood pressure and CO2 levels. He did mom’s full physical therapy/range of motion exercises while she slept anyway. Mom slept through breakfast. She didn’t eat it. She didn’t eat dinner last night either because she was so sleepy.
Anthony came next and found mom in bed still and asleep as well. The CNA came to give mom a shower before lunch so mom would wake up and eat lunch. Mom went in her chair after her shower but slept. When lunch came, the CNA and Anthony woke mom and fed her. She had string beans, breaded chicken cutlet…and she ate the entire lunch! Anthony brought her a cruller from Dunkin Donuts and she ate all of that too.
Dad came next and mom was still awake with Anthony there. Shortly after Anthony left, mom fell asleep again. She slept most of the afternoon according to dad. Maureen, mom’s friend, came to see mom this afternoon. Dad said that mom slept through most of the visit.
When I arrived, Maureen was still there with dad and mom was awake. She was quiet and pretty unresponsive but she was staring at Maureen as she talked. Mom was busy wiping the table with a tissue very intently. Always cleaning!!! After Maureen left, I had mom drink some thickened juice and water. I asked mom if she wanted to do the jigsaw puzzle with me and she mouthed, “OK.” So I tried to do the jigsaw puzzle that Claudia bought for mom (100 pieces), but it was too hard for mom. Even still, mom tried to move the pieces around. She wasn’t even close with her estimations of where each piece went, but she knew the concept and what the puzzle was all about. She would move a piece close to the others and then, at other times, she would study the pieces as she lifted them. I modeled how to complete the puzzle and showed her how to see where each piece went. She watched me closely. At one point, there was an empty chair next to mom and she kept reaching for it. I asked her what she was doing and mom said, “I’m fixing it.” After a while, I tried to do the pom poms with the large, oversized, plastic tweezers and the container. Mom and I used the tweezers hand over hand. She picked up 2 pom poms on her own. She also tried to place the pom poms on the top of the container using her hand mostly. I left for work as mom’s dinner came. Mom was put on a 5 day dose of antibiotics for the cyst under her arm…dad said she gets the antibiotic 4 times a day. I researched her blood pressure meds again and found that one of the side effects of one med is shaking and a side effect of another is drowsiness…. I will talk to the doctor about it the next time I see him.
Claudia saw mom tonight. Mom was awake and done with dinner when Claudia arrived. Claudia did mom’s full physical therapy/range of motion exercises really well. Then Claudia did a jigsaw puzzle with mom too!!! (great minds think alike!!). Claudia did the puzzle the same way that I did too!! Then they did word searches using the oversized print books. They did the word search hand over hand. Mom was engrossed with both activities. Claudia had mom drink a whole glass of lemon water while she was there too. Claudia got tired finally so she tucked mom in for the night and prayed and left.
God, your God, will outdo himself in making things go well for you...Deuteronomy 30:9
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