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So Sorry about being late but my mother wanted me to spend the night Friday to help her do some things that she couldn't do her self. Like getting her shower curtain down and put back up after she washed it and dry it. Also she wanted to wash her hair and for me to roll it on rollers. So we did some other things. Plus she wants me to come back next Friday night and we have about 4 big boxes of folders that she wants to go through and then the ones that she going to keep and maybe even fix new folders for some and then I will put them in her file cabinet that she has in her garage and I have to make sure and correct some boo's I need to make sure they are alphabetically which I didn't do last night for her and I have to correct that.
On my father last week they had to take him of one type of medicine that one his doctor that diagnosed him of having vascular dementia and she put him on medicine to take for nightmares that he was having and it was keeping lately for being alert and unresponsive. So now he is responsive and eating better especially after the rehab had pureed his food too much and he didn't want it because of doing that it was getting rid of a lot of nutrients in the food. Plus the physical therapist had him Friday setting on the side of the bed and flexing his feet and if we can get him mobile we will be able to have him transferred to John Reed in Limestone, Tennessee the memory care unit there has opened now and the room we wanted for him is still reserved for him. My dad is doing better and seems to be getting stronger and he sometimes doesn't do what they want him to do.
We also found out on Thursday night that is sister-in-law that lives in Johnson City, Tennessee she has alhzemiers also and she had fallen and broke her hip and she had to have surgery Thursday night. She doing pretty good and not in any pain.
For me genealogy his a relaxing therapy plus I also go on hikes and walks with the seniors at the Jonesborough Senior Center in Jonesborough, Tennessee that is how I am taking care of my self.
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Well today after church me and my sister went to see my dad at rehab and when we got there my dad is starting to take is oxygen of off his nose and face so my mom before we got there had gotten from him and put back on him and she can't reach to good to do that because of her arthritis diease and can't reach to far because of the pain so she kind of rough about it and he didn't like that so he bit her pretty deep on her hand and they nurses there had to put Neosporin and a band on it. Also while we were there he did take it off so my sister got a nurse to come in and put it back on him. Because if he has it off his blood oxygen drops a lot. When ever he gets to moving around we hope he will get to breathing deeper where his blood oxygen and his blood pressure will stay up and he can get off it. When we got there my mom had gotten up set with him because of that and she said she had to slap his face to get him to release the oxygen line so she could put on. So when the nurse came in to put back on he had it in his hand so I asked him to release to the nurse and he did. But my sister told my mom to get the nurses to put back on him when he takes it off of himself.
He is more alert and his color is better and last three days he has moved his feet around in the bed which he hasn't in a long time. Also he speaking a lot more to us he mainly says Hey to us.
He is still eating good, they have been getting him up and sitting him in a regular wheelchair and he doing what they want him to do about that. They are using a lift to get him up and in a chair. They are trying to get him to stand on his own but he is still pretty weak on that front.
I am trying to take care of myself like on July 12 thru July 20th Kingsport, Tennessee has every year for the last 30 or 31 years have had every July Kingsport, Tennessee Funfest in their town and so this year my brother and sister - in - law is going to do stuff they have going on during the 10 days.
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