Mom’s update November 26, 2011
When I came to see mom this morning she was hysterical crying. She was in a crying jag and practically inconsolable. She was crying that she needed a tissue, but she had one in her hand. She was crying that she was laying down flat, but I had lifted her up in the bed and had her sitting up. I gave her tissues, I held my hand over her stoma so she could blow her nose, but she kept crying. At one point I just said, “Stop crying this isn’t helping you. You need to stop.” She looked at me and started to ease up. I told her that I was there and I wasn’t leaving and that she had a great breakfast and tried to distract her. I gave her breakfast and she calmed down. I felt terrible being stern, but I think she just needed to be snapped out of it. We had a great breakfast together. I brought mom a ham and cheese omelet and home fries.
After breakfast we did a Mets puzzle book that I brought for her. The first activity was connect the dots. She did great. She only missed two numbers. We then did an activity where she had to match players’ names and their jersey number. I asked her if she knew their numbers and she said no. I took out her team baseball cards and found all but two players. She looked at the card and then drew the line from the player to the jersey. We called Anthony to see if he knew the last two players but he didn’t know their numbers. Mom talked to Anthony and he told her that he and Con and the kids were going to Brooklyn today to see Con’s relatives. Dad also called this morning and spoke to mom.
The CNA’s came in to get mom ready for the day. She had a difficult time standing this morning. When the CNA wheeled her back in the room mom said, “Get me thank you notes. I have to thank all these girls.” I will get thank you cards today so that mom can write them tomorrow. I put Mary Tyler Moore on and mom was so happy to watch the show.
The nurse came in the room and said she would be back soon to change mom’s bandage and that she would also do her g-tube! WHAT?! I asked her if she read mom’s care plan and she said she did. She walked out of the room and came back with the care plan sheet to show me that it said G-tube. I went to the nursing supervisor and asked her to check mom’s care plan. They looked at it and said that it says g-tube site. She said that they check and clean the site every day. I am here all the time and so is everyone in my family and I can speak for myself when I say, they DO NOT check OR clean the site daily!
After we watched an episode I took mom downstairs to the vending machines. Mom took her purse. We bought a pack of pretzels and an ice tea. Mom didn’t like the ice tea. We sat in the lobby and people watched. One of mom’s old CNA’s from the vent unit came over to talk to mom. Her face lights up when she sees her. Mom also thinks that she is someone from her past. She thinks she is a student from when mom worked in the schools. She actually does look like a girl from school and Anthony and I often say that she probably thinks it’s her.
We came back to the room and watched another episode of Mary Tyler Moore. It was the Chuckles the Clown episode! It is my favorite episode!
We did sequencing cards today. They were 3 card sequences. She did OK. She was able to put them in order but then had a hard time describing what was on the card in order. We did an activity and then we watched another episode. Dad came and brought the article from Cambridge University about how you can read a word if the first and last letter are in the right place and the middle of the word is scrambled. Mom was able to read the passage!!! Holy Cow! Dad and I couldn’t believe it.
Dad stayed with mom and watched Mary Tyler Moore. They read the paper and looked at magazines and watched TV. Dad left when Terry came and Terry stayed with mom until she went to bed.
Please keep mom in your prayers so that she actually will come home when they say she will. She is expected to be home at the end of the week. There is a meeting with the social worker on Tuesday at 1:30 to go over all the equipment that is needed in the home.
Thank you to all who read this blog and pray for mom! Thank you for all of your support.
Peace and Be Well,
~Claud
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