Thursday, September 4, 2008
Swing Slowing
Movement for 9/3/08:
- She just couldn't seem to get much purchase with her legs, today, although she tried. I had bought her a new walker that morning and she was excited about it, but I could tell, from her halting, almost collapsing walk through her bathroom that we'd have to put off using it. When she got to her dresser I pushed the wheel chair behind her and she gratefully sat in it and we wheeled into the bathroom. Keeping her up on her feet for groin bathing was iffy. Between front and back (each side lasts a minute or less) I had her sit, which is very unusual. The Hospice RN arrived before we made it out of the bathroom. I wheeled her to the dinette.
- We didn't actually make it into the living room between breakfast and her nap. After the RN left she didn't want to move, so we sat at the dinette table and chatted while she finished her tea. Then, she went in for a nap, directly from the dinette. She attempted to stand and walk but mentioned that she felt her had "too much leg", so I positioned the wheelchair behind her and took her to the bathroom and bed with that. She transferred fairly well, but was not able to lift herself just using the handles of the wheelchair.
- Although she managed to walk, more haltingly than usual, to the bathroom after her nap, she was so iffy on her legs that I insisted on wheeling her into the living room. I also wheeled her into the bathroom for bed preparation. She insisted that she wanted to walk from the bathroom to bed, even though she chose not to stand at the sink to brush her teeth. She made it into bed on her own two feet but just barely.
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