Grandpa C

News was not good on Grandpa C today. It sounds as if he is giving up and every one else too. Which got me to thinking. He lost grandma many years ago. Dad in Dec. 2006 and his youngest sibling December 2007. His current wife is living in a nursing home. My aunt mentioned all he has left is one sister. He has a few miles on him as well. While his youngest brother lived a rougher life. She also mentioned he had made some changes recently to be more like his family. Hear I have been fearing a call about my moms brother, while Grandpa is loosing ground. I hope he pull though.

Mom is Back Home

Mom has moved from her care takers back to her home. Only I messed up in not getting the phone number moved. So that is messed up until I can get it fixed.

Also my uncle called while we were at camp. Grandpa got dehydrated, so he is in the hospital with a heart that is not regular. We are praying for him. I pray he gets well soon.

Mom knew she was in her home. Mom went right to her favorite seat in the home.

11 July 2008

Mom was doing well when I saw her yesterday. I could tell she knew me by the way when she looked at me she would grab my hand and not let go. She even was trying to sing "Jesus Loves Me" with me for the first time in a long time. I was not able to get as much done with the canning jars as I wanted. I did contact the one of the parties that had been recommended to me twice about doing the roofing job for moms house. The lawyer called about having met with youngest dear brother and his female friend. Not much more to say about all that.

a few things to keep in mind

Mom went to the Dr. for an after the hospital stay check and the Dr. put her back on iron.

The lawyer for mom called yesterday, he was going to meet with youngest dear brother today, then let me know what I should not sell. I have not heard back from him yet . Tomorrow I will be hard to catch up with and gone after that. So I hope all goes well.

I will be going there tomorrow. I need to mow the yard, stop at the credit union, pick up the mower, get a roof estimate, drop the boxes for the auction, empty the canning jars, run the dishwasher. Take over the auto hoist that has been here since the truck was sold. That sound like enough since I have to squeeze it between tennis lesson for my sons youngest and taking the older two at home to work. I hope we are not cutting it tight.

Back Home

Phenomena. I received a call midday on Monday from mom's caretaker. Mom was lethargic so she called the ambulance and started CPR. She said she had not done it since 1977, but it came back as she needed it. I called DH and was on the road with in 15 minutes. I met DH 20 minutes from here on the way there, dropped my auto and continued on to the hospital. Once at the hospital, moms care taker was there, mom squeezing her hand for all it was worth. She stopped when I walked up on the other side, then grabbed my hand. 4 hours later they put her in the room she had been in last year while out on the general floor. I was upset as they had starved her there last year. Not so this year. They did keep her Monday night and Tuesday night, but were ready to let her go home on Wednesday. She has to go see the Dr. in two weeks. They changed her diet to thickened liquids, and sent her home with a ventilator. Today I talked to the Dr. office and they want her back on iron, again. So it is waiting at the new pharmacy.

While talking in the E.R. mom would brighten as her care taker and I talked about moving them back to mom's house. Mom did so much better there while they evacuated there, so we are moving them there. Which is good for another reason. Beside it being better for the house to be lived in than setting empty. We can get it fixed up. Hail hit the last day they were there so it needs a new roof. Having a care taker who was a contractor/construction worker when I met her. We can get this nice again. I am very excited about all this.

Hospitalized with Phenomena

The title sums it up quite well for what I have time to post. She is at Covenant in a regular room. I hope to be able to write more later.

Where do we go from here!

Yesterday was was very interesting day. We had a lot to do here and over there so we could not leave until later. Once finally on our way, I choose to drive through city streets and county streets rather than join the detoured Interstate 80 traffic that was being detoured 110 miles north to to flooding. (Detour took US 61 to US 20 to I-35) U.S. highway 20 though here is crazy busy at times anyway, add detoured Interstate traffic and do not go there unless you must.

So we get to her community, there is still water all over and the river is high and out of it banks still. On the way to pick up the mower deck there was a semi & PT Cruiser accent with police just arriving at the interchange of the two highways U.S. 20 & U. S. 63. So we went the wrong way to avoid being held up there for a long time, very short detour. We made it though the intersection about the time the north bound traffic was able to start moving again. Picked up the deck, made our way to mom's house. Putting the deck back on took some time and effort but not too bad. Installed the new hanger as well. Learned someone is helping themself to the rhubarb and selling it. The person cleared the trees near the corner that was going to so that looked better.

I left three sons working on the yard and went over to visit with mom and her care taker. Here is where things were very telling. While at mom's home, mom was eating, walking being active. Back at her care talkers where she has lived for the last year and half she will not eat or walk and wants to sleep. So we are both praying about where they should live and what to do about home health aids and the like.