Mom’s update Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Dad started the day with mom. I had an early appointment today and couldn’t go.
John’s cousin came to see mom. He does some speech and language activities with mom. I spoke to him after he saw her and he said, “Sheeeeeee’s baaaack!” He felt she is doing very well. He wants us to keep challenging her, keep working on memory and cognition. He also wants her to use longer sentences. He said we shouldn’t accept one-word answers.
Anthony came to see mom. He spoke to John’s cousin. Mom stood up 5 to 6 times with Anthony and at least 3 x with no one helping!!! She stood up 3 times with no problem and then she was tired. She told them, “I’m ready to go.” Then she couldn’t do it and said my arms are not strong enough. Anthony said, “You just did it 3x.” A few times she stood she stayed up for 20 seconds. There were a few times when she could only stay up for 5-10 seconds.
John went to mom this evening. Dad was still there. John gave her a kiss and spoke to John. When dad left mom was goofing around and kept asking him for one more kiss. When dad left mom was writing. John tried to play “words with friends” with mom but John couldn’t get internet on his phone because of the room. It was 6:30 and mom still didn’t get dinner. John went out in the hall and asked where dinner was and the nurse apologized and said it was late tonight. She ate all of her food. She had a roast beef sandwich, coleslaw and fruit. John talked to her during dinner. John took out a word search and mom did excellent. They only thing she could do were words that were on a slant. Every time she circled the word she didn’t close the circle. Not only could she not find the slanted words but she couldn’t circle them either. One of the words was “darling” and mom kept saying Ron Darling of the Mets!
The doctor came in and examined mom. He left and didn’t say anything to John.
A CNA came in and asked John if he wanted her to put mom in bed before she left for dinner break or after. John asked her to put mom in the bed before. The CNA came in 15 minutes later and put mom to bed. John felt that mom was uncomfortable in the wheel chair and needed to be put in bed. John said mom had red blotches on her face and asked the nurse about it. The nurse told John that his wife (me) told her about it and they were getting the prescription for an ointment.
John stayed with mom and then left. Mom blew John a kiss good-bye.
Peace and be well,
~Claud
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