lillibet | Dad Update

I did make it over to see Dad this afternoon. In some ways he was not doing as badly as I'd feared--his color was still good and he was able to sit up and move to the chair with a lot of help from both me and a walker. He ate a good-sized dinner. He seemed to be making conversation pretty well, holding onto the topic and engaging with me. But when my elder sister came in and asked him what he'd had for dinner, maybe fifteen minutes earlier, he couldn't come up with an answer. I talked to the nurse and she said that whereas yesterday he'd been passing the cognitive function tests with flying colors, today he had no idea where he was or what the date was. The other unfortunate thing is that they left his catheter in too long and seem to have screwed up those muscles. Aargh! It's really frustrating when taking him to the hospital only ends up with him getting worse and new problems being created. So far no one seems to have any bright ideas for actually making any of the core symptoms better.

They are saying that he probably will leave the hospital tomorrow, most likely to a rehab facility. We are all shoring up our resolve to hold out for one we like, as opposed to the one he was in after his broken hip--that place was awful in a number of ways and inconvenient to boot!

We're all kind of a wreck. Mom was telling B. earlier how hard today was, how difficult and scary it is to see him so out of it...and she's the type that when she starts complaining, you know it's really bad. Fortunately, as B. pointed out, Teddy Kennedy has graciously given us a public grief session to subsume our own tears into.

Thank you all, so much, for the support. If I can think of any way for people to be helpful, I will let you know, but in the meantime, it means so much to me just to know you're there and will be.

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Good luck with the rehab facility. (I have some small knowledge of some of the ones around Boston and out by me on rt 495.) Getting a good one is so important to everyone's well being. Thinking of you all.