Today my mom had a few visitors...nice. When I arrived she was sitting up in bed trying to eat her yummy breakfast...the food is a bit drab but they really do try to make the patient happy. Prune juice has found its way to every meal tray and prune juice is not my mom's friend...the first day she thought it was coffee and took a mouthful and promptly spit it out...she has told the nurses and doctor that prune juice can be taken out of her diet...yuk. She seems to be leery of stuff they bring as she had been looking forward to a milkshake and she got a soy based formula type thing...nasty she said - so today when they brought ice cream she said no way...it's soy, I assured that is was "real" so she ate some..and some yoghurt and some fruit otherwise she still doesn't feel super hungry.
She still is getting her days confused but after talking to the doctor that is just a side effect of being in the hospital and he also said a bit of it is from the surgery too. He said that mentally she wouldn't completely feel like herself for a few...there was a name for the syndrome...but it escapes me right now. Her doctor did come in and check on her and talk about moving. He is "watching" her 2 smaller incisions because that still show signs of infection so as long as she doesn't spike a fever and her white blood cell count continues to decline then she will move tomorrow. It seems to be a "hurry up and wait" situation...trying to be patient. I will post the place where she will be as soon as I have the exact place.
The cards you have been sending are decorating her walls and she reads all of them. She always asks "how does so and so know?" because they care about you that is how....she really likes them.
She is still very tired especially after a session with the physical therapist. Today I watch her session and Dan is so good with her....he doesn't take her stuff...when she sat down and said "I'm done" he said "ok for a minute" and after that minute she was up again. Today she stood quite well supporting herself with one hand on a cane and Dan held her under the arm...he did say that a couple of times she "did it all herself". Today's task was to march in place...she did it for a little while and he pushed her a good bit...then she plopped back into the chair and said "ok that's it"....he said "well you plopped down and that is not good sitting so we have to do it again" she said "just once" he said "well until you get it right". I found myself laughing many times because of the look on her face. We talked afterwards and she told me that I can not imagine how hard it is....and I that I could imagine and I know it is hard....but she is going to have to go through some hard times to get to the ultimate goal. I am hoping that she gets new inspiration when she moves and I hope that they don't just let her sit around, that they push her too. We have been assured that there are many therapists there and that she should get a lot of pushing.
I know my mom can do this she just has to feel better to really get motivated. I believe that if she could eat some more protein and good food that her stamina will increase....it will come.
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