I met the PT person in the parking lot walking in this morning. I was told that mom is doing well but that they are working on mom’s upper body this week until her leg gets better. They are going to give mom a lower backed wheelchair to help her sit up more on her own.
When I got to mom’s room, she was awake and alert and rested!! She looked at my shirt and asked where the ‘hyphen’ (she meant ‘apostrophe’) was in Joseph’s. It was there the whole time but she didn’t see it. Her breakfast tray was waiting for her on the table but she kept saying she wasn’t ready to eat yet because she was cold. She was kidding around. I told her it was breakfast time and to get ready to eat and unveiled a huge waffle with syrup!!! I sent it back. Mom said, “Why can’t I have my waffle? I want it!” I said it was because there were too many carbs in waffles and syrup and then she called me a name!!!! We both laughed again.
We called JoAnn so I could tell her what mom called me and when I told JoAnn why mom called me the name, JoAnn said she agreed with mom!! JoAnn told mom she would take her to IHOP for 2 waffles as soon as mom walks out of here! As we talked to JoAnn, mom suddenly looked at me and said, “Oh, by the way, your nail polish doesn’t match your lipstick.” (She’s bbaaaccckkkk!!!) hahaaha! Mom grabbed her spoon then and began to bang it on the bed table and yell (as loud as she could which isn’t too loud), “I WANT WAFFLES!!! I WANT WAFFLES!!!” JoAnn said that when mom walks out of here then she goes on a diet as she promised when mom was in a coma---we began to joke then about walking and not walking, eating and not eating, waffles vs. cottage cheese etc. We all laughed so hard.
Mom told JoAnn at one point in the conversation that she was “sitting here looking at all the pictures of my kids and my husband and I miss them all so much…”
After we talked to JoAnn, Mom looked across the room and said, “I oughta go play the numbers today---hmmm…11…” I said, “OK, what others?” Mom said, “None just 11” and I told her she had to play more than one number and we both laughed so hard.
Finally, the cottage cheese and fruit came for mom’s breakfast, mom said, “Give me my phone.” I asked why and she said, “I’m gonna call the kitchen and ask where my waffle is!!!” She fights about drinking her juice every day and tells me it is sour. But then she drinks it. I think her senses are heightened in some ways---sensitive to cold, sour…
They gave mom jello with her fruit and cottage cheese. She grabs the spoon and scoops up a huge spoonful of jello and says, “Oh brother!! Look at this” and begins to imitate the wobbling, shaking motion of the jello on the spoon and says, “Geez, how do I do this?!!!” and she kept wobbling her head the same way that the jello wobbled and saying, “How am I ever going to get this from here to my mouth?!!” We laughed again!!!
Mom asked when PT was today. Mom said that physical therapy is a “torture chamber” because she “can’t do everything.” Then mom asked to go to the bathroom and asked why she isn’t allowed to go---again. She said she will walk to the bathroom if I let her do it. I asked why she doesn’t walk in PT then and she said, “Oh, I do..it’s just a matter of , you know, words” and laughed. I said, “You mean semantics?” and she said, “Yeah, that’s it!”
Mom and I did the calendar and she remembered it was August. She knows how to find the information about the day and year on the calendar too. She still goes to the week prior to the current day in order to determine the date though---For example, today is the 12th and she says it is the 5th . She knows what column to look in and she knows which day too; she is just a week ahead though.
I tried to do time concepts with mom. I drew the clock again on the white board (complete with minutes). Mom kept saying, “I just don’t get it.” I explained it over and over again and she would say she understood but then she wouldn’t understand the whole concept of telling time in the end. Mom’s CNA told Anthony and me that mom was able to put her own shirt on by herself today!
Anthony came next and he and mom went outside and did some leg exercises that Barry, our cousin, showed us. He said she did really well. He also said that she was still in a comical mood. They talked and laughed a lot. Mom had to go to the dining room for lunch again so the speech therapist could observe her with eating and regular liquids. On Monday, mom should be back on regular liquids. Mom’s leg looks better today---totally normal. She is still on the Keflex for a total of 10 days. Mom’s roommate is gone but a new roommate is coming in today….no break.
Dad said mom had a great afternoon. He said she had good reports from speech and PT (no OT today because the therapist was not in). Dad said mom’s new roommate is there and she and her 2 sons seemed very nice. Mom was calm tonight and fell asleep but the nurse woke her for medication. Mom told dad to go home because she was going to sleep.
Tomorrow is mom’s birthday!!! We are having cake at 4:30 in the recreation room—all are welcome—call one of us for details.
"As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15
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