I will note that Mom loved having the family drop in.
While she may not recall now that they were here, she enjoyed seeing them when
she was awake. They graciously planned the running and playing around her
wakeful times so that they could spend it with her, but there really wasn’t a
lot of it, for the most part. She then spent much of today sleeping in
recovery. That’s a normal pattern for us.
I have found over the past few years that certain movies
will wake her up and engage her mind. So, when I thought she was going to sleep
all day, I put in an old favorite film of the season, It’s a Wonderful Life,
and she woke up and stayed engaged and awake for the whole film. She had seen
White Christmas with the family over the weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it,
too. She loves those older films that she remembers somewhat and is more able
to follow and engage with them than with some of the newer films.
She is having more of an issue with incontinence now,
both with her bowels and her bladder. She was traumatized recently when she
realized that she had had one such experience, but forgot it once we had clean
Depends on her. I have said more than once, this disease is curse and a
blessing. She doesn’t remember the humiliations inflicted upon her by the
disease or any of the other traumas of life, like losing my father a few years
back. She just lives in the moment and we work hard to make the moments as
pleasant as possible.
She also gets to relive the delightful things over and
over. We had a minimal snowfall over night and all through the day she would
suddenly call my name, point out the window and say look!!! She realized, with
great delight, that there was snow out her window about 25 times today! And I
was on top of it enough to be excited at the realization each time it occurred!
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