Mom was suppose to have a doctor appointment this morning. Naturally the office called to reschedule. The doctor was sick. In the time she has been at Cami's house that has happened twice. If the doctor is sick there really isn't anything that can be done, but it is frustrating. It isn't like me having an appointment. I can go at will and without effort.
So I went and spent about an hour with Mom today because Tuesday has become my day to do that. That freed up Cami to easily make lunch. Mom is restless and doesn't sit still. Cami has discovered that just letting her go up and down the hallway with a chair seems to help. That is better than Cami going up and down the hallway. Mom doesn't have a great sense of balance anymore and she is hard to get up if she falls to the floor.
That is what I did until lunch. We paced the hallway. We would go to her room and she would lay down and close her eyes. Maybe a minute later she would open her eyes and get back up and back down the hallway we would go. She did stop long enough to eat some of her lunch. We made a couple more passes down the hallway and then she got into bed and actually did fall asleep. I waited awhile to make sure she really was asleep.
This is a big change. And everything I have been reading....it is just the progression of the disease. Cami had gotten another refill of the calm down pills and that is probably why her brain was quieter today.
No comments:
Post a Comment