Re: ALICE Re: Update on my family and me

January 20, 2005

(((((((HUGS)))))))))) Alice

Good luck on your cause!

Things are going better here. My grandmother's dementia seems much better, so

I suspect some of it was just a side effect from the surgery itself, a form of

mito crash. She is pretty much back to her regular everyday level of dementia.

Not psycho woman any longer. Her hip was pronounced completely healed

yesterday, and the doctor seemed rather amazed! The next problem to take care

of is her incontinence. It is rather bad now. We have an appt. February 7 for

that, and the doctor said we could start weaning her off of us staying with her

and she could go back to living by herself. He seemed to think she could do it,

and also said she could probably learn to walk without the walker now, but didnt

advise against it, as it could prevent future falls. I didnt recommend it

either! LOL I told her the condition for her to go back to living by herself,

(something she seemed deliriously happy about considering btw, as much as April

and me! LOL) was that she stay on the walker. I

will be checking in on her more than ever now. And will take over as her

primary aide during the day once independent choices kicks in, and a friend of

mine will take over the rest of the hours. But we are going to try letting her

stay by herself at night. Evidently she has done remarkably well overall,

considering. I knew she was, as the incision had closed completely within 3

weeks, she only had to have around 3 weeks therapy, and then they said they had

done all they could for her, she was doing so well. However, we wont be

allowing her to stay by herself just yet, as we have to get her incontinence

issues straightened out first, and I am going to try going away for brief

periods first, like an hour or two, and see how she does. She has been getting

out of chairs, even difficult ones for weeks now all by herself. She just needs

someone to do the cooking and more of the cleaning. But she needed someone for

the cooking before anyway. Wish us luck! and a few prayers

our way would be appreciated

HUGS

January 20, 2005

I am glad to hear about your grandmother. Please give yourself some time to

just veg. You must be exhausted.

laurie

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> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 06:08:07 -0800 (PST)

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> Subject: Re: ALICE Re: Update on my family and me

>

> (((((((HUGS)))))))))) Alice

>

> Good luck on your cause!

>

> Things are going better here. My grandmother's dementia seems much better,

> so I suspect some of it was just a side effect from the surgery itself, a form

> of mito crash. She is pretty much back to her regular everyday level of

> dementia. Not psycho woman any longer. Her hip was pronounced completely

> healed yesterday, and the doctor seemed rather amazed! The next problem to

> take care of is her incontinence. It is rather bad now. We have an appt.

> February 7 for that, and the doctor said we could start weaning her off of us

> staying with her and she could go back to living by herself. He seemed to

> think she could do it, and also said she could probably learn to walk without

> the walker now, but didnt advise against it, as it could prevent future falls.

> I didnt recommend it either! LOL I told her the condition for her to go back

> to living by herself, (something she seemed deliriously happy about

> considering btw, as much as April and me! LOL) was that she stay on the

> walker. I

> will be checking in on her more than ever now. And will take over as her

> primary aide during the day once independent choices kicks in, and a friend of

> mine will take over the rest of the hours. But we are going to try letting

> her stay by herself at night. Evidently she has done remarkably well

> overall, considering. I knew she was, as the incision had closed completely

> within 3 weeks, she only had to have around 3 weeks therapy, and then they

> said they had done all they could for her, she was doing so well. However, we

> wont be allowing her to stay by herself just yet, as we have to get her

> incontinence issues straightened out first, and I am going to try going away

> for brief periods first, like an hour or two, and see how she does. She has

> been getting out of chairs, even difficult ones for weeks now all by herself.

> She just needs someone to do the cooking and more of the cleaning. But she

> needed someone for the cooking before anyway. Wish us luck! and a few

> prayers

> our way would be appreciated

>

> HUGS

>

January 20, 2005