It's a Gregorious Life

Wednesday

Had to work late, plus I had been spinning my wheels all day. So didn't get to go by moms.

I called her about 630 and told her I wasn't coming. She and Donald were in the room. She said her day had been ok. Lisa said she had seen her at breakfast when she went over to help Wilma move.

I called her about 745 and she said Donald had left about 730. She sounded good.

Tuesday

Lisa went to see Wilma at lunch and stopped to talk to mom. Pam was taking her to have her nails done. Some of Pams family from KY were there with some babies and mom was talking about how they just kept smiling Lisa said. Mom called me later saying she needed some body wash and said the same thing about the children, that they just kept smiling.

I went by after work and took her body wash. She was in the room. Jennifer came in to remind her about Community Christian singers were in the dining room. So we set off down the hall but stopped to tell WIlma goodbye. She's going to a different facility.

Monday

The good news is that mom was in a good mood when I got there after work. She and Donald were in the lobby. Lisa had told me last night she had helped mom put her gown on last night. She had stopped in after I left.

Donald said mom was asleep when he got there. He woke her up and she had to go to the bathroom before going to supper. She said she wet her pants this morning and someone had to change them for her. But she didn't seem to let it bother her like yesterday.

Someone came and got her just before I left about 650 to take her to do exercises in her room. I told the lady that they were definitely helping.

The Weekend, February 24th-26th

Friday mom and Donald were in the lobby when I got there. She said she had some therapy that day. She played bingo but didn't win anything she said.

The Kings Messengers were there to sing, or that was them that were there Thursday night I think.

Saturday Terry and Mandy went over just before lunch and stayed til after I got there at 4. Mandy put a St. Patrick's Day charm on moms door. David had called me at lunch and said Belks had a big sale on so I went by there and got 2 shirts on my way over. Then Pat called later and invited mom and I to lunch tomorrow at their house.

Terry said they had done her exercises in the room. After they left I took mom down to supper then sat with Wilma a few minutes. Lisa and her husband came in and I went on to moms room a little after that. When mom got back from supper she said she had bbq and baked beans and greens. Lisa and Bruce stopped in to say good night. I had brought my computer to do some work on that scrapbook for Batchie from the reunion in October so I got a little but done with that.

Sunday I picked mom up at 1215 and we headed to David and Pats. We forgot though that their wheelchair was in mom's trunk so we had to go back to her house to get one out of the building. We hadn't figured out at that point that the other one was in her trunk. On the way back to David and Pats I drove down the street to the new Piedmont and Northern station and got a photo of one of the two locomotives sitting there.

Pat had a great lunch with chopped steak and gravy, broccoli casserole, rice, green beans and home made biscuits. Then she had pumpkin pie after that and mom had some coffee with it. She was in food heaven. So was I. I told them my tongue thought it had died and went to the Food Network.

After lunch we went to the living room and David and Pat got mom into the recliner. She and Gus were pretty much sacked out. Before she napped she was watching racing until they switched it to Matlock.

She had to go to the restroom so they helped her in there. She got embarresed though that her pull up was wet. She talked about it from the house all the way back to the room. We got back about 545.

In the room she looked so upset and I told her she looked like she had committed a crime. She said it was, and that it was humiliating to be in that position. I told her that was crazy and she had a good laugh out of it and forgot about it. Just before I left she took her beads off and said "well I guess the party's over I'll take my beads off. I told her I could leave now since that was a sign she would not be up to any mischief tonight.

Thursday

My boss let me leave a little early so I could sit on the porch with mom while it was still warm. She met me in the lobby and we went outside.

She said they did therapy in her room the past two days and are recording it. I told her we won't stop it this time even if they do.

Johnson and Wales University students came and prepared omelets for lunch. She said she couldn't taste the cheese though. But she did like them. Mrs. Petty stopped by and said her mother ate a whole one even though she kept saying she wasn't hungry.

She was a little disturbed that she hadn't talked to anyone today and she had heard the doctor going from room to room but he didn't stop to see her. She's not taking the breathing treatments anymore. She sounded better but said she still rattles "when I exert myself, going down the hall."

David and Pat went over later.

Wednesday

Donald rolled mom out to the lobby not long after I got there today after work. Lisa had seen her at lunch and she had some cherry cobbler. She didn't talk a lot about supper tonight.

She had her hair done today. I went by this morning and paid Amy for this month and next.

She said Pam came and they did exercises. She said she had those examples in a neat folder where they would not get torn up, and had a sheet where she can keep up with what they do.She said the burn on her leg still hurts. Donald wondered if it was psoriasis.

Terry and Mandy came by after lunch, and mom said some ladies from moms church brought her a new shawl to wear. She had it with her and put it on.

She said the Kings Messengers were supposed to be there there later tonight. She asked Donald what he played this morning. He said something about a title that had to do with Hawaii.

Tuesday

David and Pat went over in the evening. It had been a long day so I told them to tell her I was going home. I had called her about 715 and Pat answered.

Monday

Mom saw Will and his parents today. She seemed ok.

 

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The Weekend, February 17-19

Mom and Donald were in the lobby when I got there Friday with Drake. She said she had done therapy on her own in her room earlier.

She said Ronnie had come to see her. David and Pat came in and stayed a while. Lisa also stopped by while we were all out there.

Saturday I went by at suppertime. David and Wendy and everyone had been by earlier. She said they sat on the porch a little while. A nurse had come to giver her her medicine and said she had a new pill. Mom wanted to know what it was for and she said it was for depression. "I had that fit about going home the other day... and that's why they did it." She said David and Pat told her to try it for a week and see if she liked it. She said she didn't want to get started on that.

I asked her if she took it anyway. "No I didn't take it. I haven't gotten down to that level yet" she said. "I've got more to live for than that."

Then she looked at me and said "do I seem like a depressed person to you?" I said no not usually but sometimes. Immediately she said "well WHO isn't!"

She had a breathing machine there so she's started treatment for her wheezing. Batchies preacher had come by and she talked to Terry finally on the phone.

Sunday I went by at lunch and we had lunch in her room. I brought pot roast with potatoes, carrots and onions, biscuits and strawberry jam. We had come cookies for dessert. I left her when she started her breathing treatment as I needed to go to the restroom anyway. We did manage to get in some exercising before that though.

I went back over at supper time. David and everyone had been by again, and Terry had come by too. She hung up the clothes I had brought back earlier and had to leave until my return because of the bathroom thing.

Pat brought some chocolate cake and left it. Mom and I talked and she was mentioning Pat's shoes and said that in the old days Belk used to x-ray your foot when you bought a new pair of shoes to be sure they were not hurting your foot. I had never heard of that and mom said it was long long ago. I went to ask Wilma if she had heard of it and she remembered it too and why they stopped it.

 

Thursday

Mom was in the room doing exercises on her own when I got there after work.

All was not as well as it would seem however. "I got sick and tired of everything and went up there and laid it out to Julia" she said. "I asked her what do I have to do to get out of here?" She said she told her she would call David. "I didn't want her to do that!" she said.

I told her everything is going well and to keep it up, that the devil was trying to get her riled up, sorta like the politicians do with the left and the right. She said she was just frustrated because if we're going to have to do the therapy ourselves "I can do that at home". She seemed ok after that and we went to visit Wilma down the hall for a few minutes.

They complemented each other's hair and WIlma said she almost got thrown under the sink because there's an incline in the floor just in front of it.