Long break between posts. I am busy, no doubt, but some days I just can't think of what to say.
Just to catch up a little bit....Dad had pneumonia a month ago and spent 5 days in the hospital. We got it tended to very quickly. He started coughing on a Saturday night....started spitting up phlegm on Sunday afternoon at 2pm and was admitted by 6pm that very day. Had we let it go, not knowing what it was, it would have been a lot worse. The home health nurse had JUST been here and listened to his lungs on Wednesday night prior. So it was a fast moving pneumonia. I know with the history of lung problems in our family you don't try to fix it ourselves. Can't be done. I have a history of bronchitis, so did Mom, my sister too and most of Dad's family.
So with some extra care at home after the hospital stay, Dad is better than normal now. In fact, today, he got up on his own, did the bathroom routine with a little help and was motivated to do some things without prompting. That's a first in a very long time.
As some of you know, we just came back from Indiana a week ago. The trip was good for Dad in some ways.....and in other ways, it tired him out. By the end of the week, he had full dementia and was driving us all bonkers. He kept me up two nights at my sister in law's before we headed back to Oklahoma on Sunday. OMG, what a ride home. He had to sit in the back with me because he was grabbing at the steering wheel with Rod driving....he would not stop it so we pulled over and moved him to where I could take care of it. Then he tried to open the door but we had the kids lock on so he couldn't do much. He would NOT go to sleep. So when he got home, he crashed for 2 days.....he needed sleep.....it's a pattern that we often go through. So I let him sleep and would wake him only to use the bathroom and drink fluids. Monday he was so out of it that he didn't even go to Sr Ctr. By Tuesday he was made to go....haha I needed SLEEP! He finally got into the swing of things and by Thursday he was better than usual. He remembers NOTHING of the things that went on during the dementia. He remembers little of from the time we got to Logansport, until we left there. He remembers bits and pieces. He sleeps so much in between that they things he does before he naps fades away. He told me when we got home it was hard to stay awake. He had to force himself to do so.
However, the goal was for him to visit his friends and family who came to see him for one last time....{unless they visit him here} This was our last trip to Logansport. There will be one last trip for Dad and he said that will be when he is laid next to Mom.
He no longer can take those long trips, it was obvious on this last trip. His house is sold.....and he can't function like he used to for enjoying any more trips. I have wanted to take him on a cruise to Alaska for the last several years but he won't go. He says all he will do is sleep anyway. LOL Probably so. I can see it now.....DAD DAD, there's the first sighting of the whales......DAD DAD......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
He says he can watch all that on TV. haha He sleeps through that even!!!!
So I will find stuff locally to keep him entertained. IF ONLY I had some hot little 90 year old to keep his eyes open! His now girlfriend told him a long time ago to find someone down here to talk to and keep company with.....but he won't do it.....he says he is a one woman man!
So yet another day goes by....Dad is resting after church on this Father's Day. He had one of his favorite meals at Egg It On restaurant.
He has talked to his other daughter and his gal friend already today....so he is down for the afternoon for a nice long nap!
