Thursday, August 21, 2008
Hard Early, Easier Later
Movement for 8/21/08:
- It's official: If Mom doesn't get 12 hours at night, she doesn't move well. It wasn't hard to get her sitting up in bed, but from there, she just wasn't ready to move. Although she made it into the bathroom "under her own steam", it was just barely and only because she refused the chair. I practically shouldered her all the way. I didn't insist on the chair into the dinette, either, but a quarter of the way there she stopped in her tracks. Luckily, I'd stationed the wheel chair just a bit beyond, so I maneuvered her into it. Transfers were fine, but she simply wasn't up to much else, although she assured me, repeatedly that she wasn't in any pain and downright refused the 325 mg acetaminophen I offered her. She was not, however, stiff or slow going from the dinette to the bathroom for a nap.
- Evening has been much easier for both of us. I didn't bother to ask her if she thought she could make it into the bathroom after her nap. She was ready to head in before I was ready for her to go. She walked, walkered and stepped very well into the living room; even sang on her way. I expect the rest of the evening to be much the same. If it is, this is the last I'll write for the day.
- Mom's evening movement got better and better. She walked and walkered more than she has since she returned from the rehab facility, primarily because she initiated (and, believe me, this is a big deal; I usually suggest them...sometimes she refuses) two bathroom visits. She was also, once again, amenable to being directed through "stop and stretch" routines as she walked and walkered. Lately she's been annoyed by these and has ignored them, all the while "pretending" as though she's actually doing them. Anyway, she worked herself into a successful movement day, which pleases me.
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