Last night when I let Butler out the last time I realized how "lovely" I looked. My handy guy is working on the floor in the enclosed back porch so I've had to take Butler out the front door to do his duty in the front yard all week and my mind was elsewhere last night. I was wearing my jammies - which is a t-shirt and light, striped cotton shorts - my white gym socks with grey ankles (and toes), my flowery slip on shoes and I have no idea what my hair looked like. Normally Butler will pee at the drop of a hat but not last night - not even after ten minutes standing in my front yard - looking lovely as city buses went by, people were in the park across the street and people walked by on the sidewalk. Not one of my better moments................
I got down to Comfort House by 10:00 this morning to wish Mom Happy Birthday. Dad had bought three pretty mylar balloons and tied them to the end of her bed for her to look at throughout the day. Mom was sleeping when I got there and we woke her up for lunch. Last night Dad said she didn't eat any of her blended food so he decided to do a drink similar to Ensure. Mom wasn't too thrilled with that and Dad couldn't get her to drink much. After she calmed down I tried and got her to drink about half the glass.
Dad needed to leave for a while to do his laundry and run some other errands so I settled in the chair next to Mom to read and hold her hand. The medicine they are reducing - it's not a pain med or for agitation - they are now giving to her in liquid form by syringe. The first time they gave Mom this med did not go well - at all. Mom got choked very badly. The more she coughed and choked, the more she panicked. The more she panicked, the more she coughed and choked. I wasn't sure she was going to get calmed down - I was so glad Dad wasn't there. Once the coughing/choking episode was over Mom was agitated the rest of the time Dad was gone - even after giving her the agitation medicine and some morphine. Once Dad got back Mom calmed down, which makes sense she would respond better to him than me.
I left shortly after that to get home to mow. It's in the 90's here with the temperature to only get worse this weekend with the heat index to possibly hit 110 - so I thought I better tackle the yard tonight. Now I'm blogging and watching "Frasier Friday". Tomorrow I'll head to Pella after checking out carpet for the enclosed front porch - I'll be getting to Home Depot and Lowe's really early.....
