Mom’s update December 1, 2011
I started the day with mom. She was happy to see me. Once I started to fix her in her bed she started to cry. I put the TV on and it did distract her for a moment, but not like yesterday. It wasn’t until she was eating breakfast that she was able to focus on the TV and completely stop crying. Mom told Anthony that he should tell me to leave her the list of phone numbers today because yesterday she felt as if she couldn’t get in touch with anyone because she didn’t have the phone numbers. Today I made sure I left them on the tray for her. I had mom choose the outfit she would wear to day and she picked out a peach colored sweatshirt. Dad and Anthony both had to be home today. Dad was waiting for the hospital bed and Anthony had to wait for someone to come for a service to his house.
I spoke to Anthony this evening and he told me that he was outside with mom earlier in the week when the weather was nice and people kept walking by saying, “Hi Dotty.” Mom asked why all these people knew her and Anthony said, “Oh, didn’t we tell you, you were elected the Mayor of this place!” Mom cracked up! He said that when dad takes her home they will put a chair on the roof of the car and she can wave to all the people as she leaves! She was hysterical.
Kathy told me that she and mom had some great phone conversations this week. Mom was very lucid. She stayed on topic and asked and answered questions appropriately. Kathy asked who visited her and she said, “you were here for breakfast, oh no it was Claudia not you.”
I came to see mom in the evening. She was eating dinner. Dad was sitting next to her and they were watching a movie. Dad left and I stayed with mom to put her to bed. After dinner we did a following directions worksheet that I had brought. It had three rows of four ice-cream cones. Some cones were single cones, some double and some triple cones. She had to follow the directions to color the top right or the bottom left. She had to identify the single, double and triple scoop cones.
Mom was put in bed and we watched a little TV and then we said our prayers. Tonight I asked mom to say the prayers and she said the Lord’s Prayer and Hail Mary. She then said, “God help me to be peaceful tonight and help my children to all get home safely, Amen.” Let’s pray that mom gets home soon and safely as well.
As I left mom’s room I passed the nurse who takes such good care of mom. We love her. I asked her if she had a bracelet and she said no. I couldn’t believe that we never gave her one. I read the quote, “Don’t quit 5 mins. B4 the miracle happens” and told her she was to look at it and think about her goal of becoming a neurologist (she goes to Stony Brook to be a doctor and works at the facility at night). We hugged and cried. I got into the elevator and the day nurse was working a double shift and saw me and we hugged and cried for the whole ride down to the first floor. I see her on the mornings I come to see mom. I got out of the elevator and looked to my right, the vent unit and just started crying hysterically. Today marks the 18 month of mom ordeal.
I got in the car and of course there were Christmas carols playing. I have a special attachment to the song, “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.” Ava was a preemie and born at 2 lbs. 14 oz. on Nov. 20th. That whole season I would cry when I heard that song in a store, the car or anywhere. Ava WAS home for Christmas and she fit in her Christmas stocking, my favorite photo of her. Six years later to the day, Jean was hit by a car and broke his femur. He was in the hospital that whole Christmas season. Once again I heard that song and cried. He too made it home for Christmas. This year my tears are tears of joy! I can’t believe mom will be home for Christmas too.
OK here is the scoop. We were told by the Social Worker that mom could go home tomorrow OR Saturday OR next week. We are still HOPING that it will be tomorrow. The doctor came tonight to check her out and complete the last of his paperwork. All of the nurses and CNA's all seem to think it WILL be tomorrow.
HERE is the suggestion…Anyone who wants to come can and should still come. The worst that can happen is that she doesn’t go home tomorrow and you visit instead. I don’t know how soon from them telling us and her actually leaving will be. They could tell us she can go and in a half hour we leave or in hours. We don’t know.
If anyone knows that miracles happen, it’s us…keep praying and we are leaving it in Gods hands. I saw an inspirational saying once that I love
Don’t worry about tomorrow…God is already there!
Peace and Be Well,
~Claud
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