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day34 09.05.2014 mom's taking a break at last


Cipeko

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Hello all,

 

Hope everythings going OK for you all out there.

 

Mom is taking a weekend break, starting today, she and my father went to our summerhouse today, after a month after the incident, my grandma's strok which took place on 08.02.2014 on a saturday at 5:30pm in the bathroom as she was taking a shower which we assume was to get rid of her headache which she never told us, and we won't ever know...probably she had the idea of not telling that her head was in pain, that she had a severe headache, and she decided to take a shower to relax...there she was after 5 mins, lying in the bath tub, trying to lift her whole body via her left hand holding the tap valve...=(

 

I was with grandma yesterday and she was looking really good except the pneumonia in her lungs, she cant cough as hard to get rid of that white matter in her lungs and throat maybe...there are times she wants to cough it and try and swallow whatever that thing is, but she cant do it properly...but she can still cough up to some extent...let's say a good 30-40% if you'd call a proper cough 100% where you could cough your lungs out...Ohhh, I sound so disgusting, sorry about the details...=)

 

Her non used right arm and leg have started to get purple in some ares...I guess gravity is working against all organs and unused parts...so there are some purple spots on her arm and leg on her unused right side...Mom and the nurse rubs the right part, giving them a good sensitive touch and action, and also they apply some baby oil and cream...some kind of preserving medicine I believe...but still, gravity is doing it...harming the body...

 

Grandma is now on antibiotics for the pneumonia...Hope she can get rid of that white matter on her lungs soon...she was like that for the last 5 years though, she had a constant cough every 2 weeks, did not matter if it was winter or summer, she had that cough...since she had her breasts removed for curing her, it was breast cancer she dealt with, 20 years ago, back in 1994. She was perfect after that cancer...she recovered well, was fine...the only thing was that her lenf nodes were removed and her left arm (now her only moving arm) has doubled in size...due to body tissues piling up in her arm since the lenf nodes did not exist on her left part of the body.

 

And now...the stroke...which she is dealing for the last 34 days...thumbs up...

 

have a fabulous weekend out there everyone.

 

Healthy and happy days to you all,

 

Cheers,

 

Cagin

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There always seems to be other things to plague our loved ones apart from the deficits from the stroke.   My mother also had a cough, fifty years of smoking before she gave it up when she moved in here. I think a lot of it is ageing too.  All you can do with your grandmother now is to keep her as healthy and happy as you can.

 

Sue.

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Cagin, this is what I was trying to tell you that if you don't get her up everyday, she will get pneumonia.   Anyone who is bedridden will.  

 

If she has this coloration, it may be the work of the blood thinners/aspirin.   These things are common in most old people as the protective tissues get thin in old age.   You will often see these marks on people with no stroke, but the aspirin/blood thinner will increase it.   I hope they are not over massaging because even a slight touch can create a bruise in elderly people.    I'm not sure what to say... but in the US, we don't really massage stroke people, for fear of turning lose another clot that may be in a vein somewhere.    Soft rubbing like you would put lotion on a tiny baby butt would be ok though.    Just my thoughts, we all try to do what we think is best, don't feel stressed by what I say, just use it if it makes sense to you.

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