Thursday, November 20, 2008
Day of the Tired
Movement for 11/20/08:
- I'm writing this while Mom is taking her evening nap. It's been a wheelchair day all day today, Mom's choice. I always ask; I never know whether one length's use the the wheelchair is going to spill over into another. Today, it is, so far. She's been pretty tired. I'm not convinced that it's air hunger. It could just be one of "those bad days". At any rate, I'm not going to predict how her post-nap evening will go. She was having some back pain before her nap. It was hard to determine the area but the degree clearly indicated it was not one of her "incredible pain" episodes, although it was back pain, and she had been uncomfortable for awhile although reluctant to call the discomfort "pain"; so I gave her 500 mg acetaminophen before she went down for her nap. She's been flying below radar all day today, though. I'm expecting her to take a relatively long nap. I'm thinking we might have a Bedside Evening, tonight, although I'm not sure. Could just end up being a light meal and another American Girl movie. Whatever. It's a very low key, just wheelin' around day.
- The evening part of Mom's day turned into a Bedside Evening, even though it extended for three hours. I was anticipating this; oh, yeah, I see that I mentioned my anticipation above. It did involve some movement but only transfers from bedroom to bathroom and back. Mom sat in the wheelchair throughout our "Bedside Evening", which was more comfortable than sitting on the bed because she was experiencing some upper back pain which probably wasn't cancer related and didn't involve "air hunger" for any reason. She was in good spirits and animated while she was up. I even asked her a couple of times, because she felt so good, if she wanted to be wheeled into the living room to watch more American Girl movies but, much to my pleased surprise, she preferred us continuing an intimate Bedside Evening in her room. At one point she even said, "I like doing this." So do I.
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