No Idle Hands Here
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My Mother-in-Law's motto: "Don't tell me not to burn the candle at both ends. Just tell me where to get more wax."
Hello everyone, I hope you’re all doing well. It’s been very busy around our house for many weeks. We have had visiting therapists, doctor’s appointments and many many hectic days and nights getting back to a routine, and normalcy if there is a normalcy.
In the news we have been following the healing process of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. It reminds me of so many of our survivors here on StrokeNet. All the stages of recapturing neuro responses and reconnections are all too familiar. My dear Bernie went through some of the same stages, some worse, some better. Survivors are troopers to a degree, that’s for sure.
Unfortunately, for me, I’ve not been able to get to the Caregivers Chat Room on Tuesday evenings. Bernie is on such a close schedule for tube feedings and medications, there’s just not time. She is more impulsive than ever before, and she is less cognitive. On the other hand her quick wit and sense of humor is the best that it has ever been. There are a couple of things that are worse than before, we deal with them. Fortunately Bernie is able to walk, with a walker if I’m watching, without a walker if I don’t catch her in the moment. She has not fallen in over 4 weeks so I’ll just be grateful for that. I guess I’ve got much to be thankful for. Although I don’t think I’m feeling very thankful for the Michigan weather right now, freezing rain, single digit temperatures, frozen car doors, and having to go out in it.
On the rehab front: It’s going slow but Bernie is still recovering, in fact today we passed another small milestone. Although there was a strap around her for safety, the therapist walked her downstairs to the basement, she shot a few balls on the pool table, and then walked back up stairs (I see a laundress in my future).
Even though we have much work ahead of us, I am so glad, at this point, that all the sub-acute nursing care places turned Bernie down and she came home. My patience has grown thin more times than I want to admit, but I still think she is in the best place for her right now. We shall see….., Till then watch your left side, Mike
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