Wednesday 6/23/10

Aunt Wilma & Uncle Johnny's visit with grandma was great. On Tuesday when they arrived she was sitting in the dining room so they were able to see her sitting up and awake. It took a few minutes for her to understand who Uncle Johnny was but she later called him by name. Aunt Wilma talked to her about recipes and she said, "that was the best of times."

On Wednesday we went to visit twice. Both times Grandma was in bed and wanting to sleep.  This is how she usually is these days - she just wants to stay in bed and sleep.  We took her to the dining room for supper but she just wanted to go back to bed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFqGXLN1gK4 - Uncle Johnny telling Grandma who he is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_YIpBosBYU - Aunt Wilma & Grandma talking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hb-4dVvF7M - Good stuff

Bonus picture - Aunt Wilma & Uncle Johnny getting their exercise.

Thursday June 17th, 2010

When I arrived today at 10am, the CNA had just finished taking Grandma to the bathroom.  She was anxious to get back to bed.  She was in a sweet mood but ready to sleep again.  I began videoing her getting in the bed and she turned around and saw me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkwauTambes - Grandma was able to talk pretty good today.

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Grandma didn't want to eat today, she kept pushing her plate away.  Finally I was able to get her to eat a few bites.  She just wanted to get in bed.

When we arrived to visit with Grandma, she was still in the dining room and had just finished supper.  Michael was there helping her and he had fed her this evening.  This came as a big blow to me, grandma has never let anyone feed her.  But she allowed him to do the whole meal, I guess I should be grateful that she ate everything.  It's just hard because grandma has always been so independent.

After supper we were sitting in the dining room visiting and grandma was talking about getting in the kitchen and fixin the white potatoes.   I guess supper made her think about cooking.  She doesn't very often talk about cooking, gardening, nursing, or working in the yard - the things she used to love doing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z68KsE7lP78 - grandma talking about fixin white potatoes.

Grandma's cookbook

This is a post from Amy's facebook wall today -

Amy Perkins Warren "is cooking a recipe from one of my great-grandmother's cookbooks.  If I close my eyes and pretend, it's like I'm a little kid back in her kitchen."

Carpet rollover

Apparently Grandma decided she would take a seat on the carpet at the front door and wasn't able to stop herself when she sat down and rolled over onto her back.  She is ok, no injuries but I'm not sure why she thought she should sit on the front door rug.  Since she doesn't have depth perception, maybe she thought it was a table or something.