Sunday, November 28, 2010

Well, the Thanksgiving holiday is coming to a close. It has been really nice to sleep in, both for me and for my dad. I got a lot done as well. My friend, Pam, helped me decorate my Christmas tree last night and I finished most of my other decorations today. I don't go all out; just put a few sentimental things around. My Christmas tree is beautiful. It has lots of colored lights and it's loaded with ornaments. Dad enjoys sitting in his recliner and looking at it. He wasn't interested in helping us decorate it, though! I got his medicine ready for the week and his clothes ready for tomorrow. I just finished giving him a shower. It was so funny tonight. I decided not to wash his hair, so after I made sure he used soap on his face and then on his body and bottom, I sat in the bathroom and read the paper while he finished up. He would peek out around the curtain. I would say, "Are you finished?" He would say, "No, not yet." In just a minute, he would peek out again, and again I would say, "Are you ready to get out?" He would say, "No, not yet" or "Almost." I think he did that about 15 times before he was ready. After I got him to shave and brush his teeth, we sat at the bar for a while. I decided to have him go through the picture cards. He correctly named 44 out of 87 pictures. I noticed more difficulty with his word retrieval. He said corn for lettuce and band for bus. He said knife for pen and for scissors. He called cheese, ice cream and said transfire for firetruck. Some of the pictures he was not able to name last time, he could name, and vice versa. Last night, after I got Dad in bed, I took his blood sugar. I dispose the needle and strip in old medicine bottles. As I was doing that, the bottle fell over and the needles and strips hit the floor and went everywhere. I got down on the floor and was reaching under the bed and under the chair to get them all up. When I finished, I looked up and Dad was looking at me with this big smile on his face. He said, "Susie, what are you looking for?" It was so funny that I didn't even realize he had been wondering what on earth I was doing! Back to work tomorrow......... Susie