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Mom finally got to come home and boy is she happy about that. Although she was only in the hospital one night, if you ask her she spent months in there. Poor mom just wanted to go home from the time we got there. Heck even before that. She was not happy about us taking her there, but fortunately for us she was too tired and weak to put up a fight. She spent most of the time while in the hospital sitting on the edge of the bed waiting to go home. I kept telling her to just lay back and relax and that she would be outta here in no time.
They finally got her plumbing working and said she could go on home. There was nothing they could do at this point for her weakness or the edema. They said to stop taking water pills because they are not helping the edema and they are dehydrating her which contributed to the constipation. Hopefully we are done with hospitals, for a little while anyway.
A difficult part about this process is that with mom’s current condition, things can be misleading. For instance, when she is sitting on the couch her head will be forward and she looks like she is either sleeping or out of it. However, when you talk to her she lifts her head right away and responds. So her eyes are closed and head forward, but she is just ‘resting’ and not really sleeping. She also responds coherently so mentally she is aware enough to respond. It is strange and can be confusing to witness. If you ask her if she is feeling okay, she will either say that she is fine or will get irritated and tell you to leave her alone. The position she sits in look horribly uncomfortable to us ‘normal’ people as well. So, for instance, tonight my sister asked her if she wanted to get her nightgown on and go to sleep, mom asked why she was so concerned with her sleeping situation. Now, if you were to say something to her or ask her a question and then ask her the same question in a few minutes she will not really remember (or at least acknowledge) that you said it. In the scenario I just described with my sister asking mom if she wanted to get ready for bed, that was actually the second time in about 5 minutes that she asked her. The first time my sister asked, mom said that she did. So my sister was just following up, but mom got upset wanting to know why she was bugging her.
It is difficult to see mom go through this. I certainly do miss the up and at ’em mom from a month ago.
Dad is still feeling like he is getting a bit worse. He stayed in the hospital all night last night with mom and by the morning he was so cold he could no longer stand it and begged us to get the hospital quickly so we could take him home. You know, if he left her side, that he was feeling pretty awful. I am hoping that since mom is now home, dad can relax and get a full night sleep. Hopefully that will pep him up. Still gotta keep an eye out and make sure we get him looked at if he doesn’t improve in the next couple days. Its possible that he needed a bit more time on antibiotics.
We had a full house for dinner tonight. My sister and her best friend made dinner tonight. I had the night off! Around the table was my mom, dad, me, my brother, my sister, my nephew, my sister’s best friend, and two of my cousins. Dinner was mighty tasty and we had a good time talking and taking bets on whether or not mom would plant her head in her plate as she nodded off in between bites. She was a trooper tho, she tried her best to stay awake.
The night is winding down, we got mom and dad their medications, discussed what we needed to do tomorrow (need to get a new prescription filled for mom) and now I am just relaxing and blogging.
Well I think that sums up the day. We shall see what fun stuff tomorrow brings!