Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Cold Day
Movement for 11/11/08:
- Since today included a nurse visit and, as I always do, I reminded her of this when I awoke her at noon after 11.5 hours of sleep, although it can't be said that she charged out of bed, the beginning of her morning was easy, although unusually slow. She wasn't quite out of the bathroom when the nurse arrived. She had indicated to me earlier during her bath that she intended to walk into the dinette, but when the time arrived to do so she opted for the wheelchair. She did, however, walk around the table and down the dinette steps to the waiting wheelchair to be transferred to the living room and her rocker. However, she was reluctant to move from the table and it took a bit of coaxing to do this. I decided, though, to persist, since, even though I knew she felt physically low, despite her reporting to the Hospice RN that she felt "great", it would probably do her good to move around a bit. I don't know if I was right, but I don't think I was dangerously wrong.
She was, again, tonight, reluctant to rise after her nap, a looong one. By this time it was obvious that all the sneezing she's been doing over the last few days has been her working up to a full fledged cold, so her increased lethargy was easily understood. She's been reporting all day that she felt "coldish" and I not only believed her, I was surprised she didn't indicate this to the RN. At any rate, she's also been on regular strength acetaminophen at constant intervals and has report, once, that her head felt "full". Once up, though, she remained up, of her own accord, in the living room, for a little over five hours, ate a fair dinner, drank plenty of liquids (with plenty of coaching) and looked pretty good, although tired, when she finally went to bed at 0145 this morning. Yes, we wheeled her to bathroom and to bed. But, you know, she did fine with transfers.
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