Grandma's breathing treatments

Rhea and I went to the nursing home last night after work.  The nurse said Grandma fought them yesterday when they tried to do her breathing treatments and asked if we wanted to try to give her a treatment.  After we visited for awhile, we got her ready for bed and then gave her the treatment.  She was so tired that she didn't fight much.

When we first arrived Grandma was still in the dining room and we visited there for awhile.  She kept standing up, I guess because she gets so tired of sitting in the wheelchair.  She'll stand for a minute then sit back down.  She would put her arm around me to hold herself up but I'm pretending that she stood up to hug me.

While we were in the dining room visiting, a gentleman resident came in and rolled up to visit with us.  He began speaking German and we really enjoyed visiting with him for awhile.  He would try to get Grandma's attention by crying like a baby or saying things in German to her and also used the German word for mother when he would talk to her.  Things were going along nicely until his dentures started falling out.  You have to understand that with all the medicine I've been taking over the last two weeks my stomach is raw and on the edge.  So, when he would talk and his dentures would slip out of his mouth - he would use his tongue to put them back in and I started feeling a little queasy.  But the ultimate was when he decided he needed to spit - he hocked and then spit on the floor to the right of Grandma.  It's a miracle that I didn't hurl right there.  I asked Grandma if she was ready to go to bed and we went to her bedroom without "Mr. German".

Grandma was a lot better than I thought I would find her.  Her cough is bad and she had a large black circle around her mouth.  But we got a few smiles out of her even though she wouldn't talk much.  I'll be going back every night to do the treatments with her.

I know y'all miss her but she looks so bad that it would be difficult for most of you to see her this way.  She weighs 79 pounds and can take a few steps but is VERY feeble.  Michael (nurse) said she is still eating most of her meals but not drinking.  We tried to get pictures of her last night but my phone ran out of power, I'll get some tonight.