by Lyn Blair | Sep 3, 2006 | dementia/Alzheimer’s, Humor
Yes, things were going very well. Whenever Dad got a bit antsy, he would go for a walk, and his restlessness would fade away. As he was setting out for another walk, I cheerfully wished him a good one and said I would see him soon. What other man 88 years old walks...
by Lyn Blair | Sep 3, 2006 | dementia/Alzheimer’s, Humor
After consulting with our neighbor Wydean, the neighborhood authority on who’s who and what’s what in Fort Payne, we were up-to-date on hospital horror stories. We followed her strict advice to admit Dad to Gadsden Regional Medical Center through their emergency...
by Lyn Blair | Sep 3, 2006 | dementia/Alzheimer’s, Humor
The next day Dad was still awake and hallucinating due to lack of sleep and the “sedative”. In his crazed state of mind, he began seeing bugs on my face and hot dogs in the trees outside the window. He started threading a line on his invisible fishing rod...
by Lyn Blair | Sep 3, 2006 | dementia/Alzheimer’s, Humor
According to the chest x-ray, dad’s pneumonia had cleared up. A week after being admitted, he was released at 5:00 p.m. and driven by ambulance to the Rehab Center (nursing home) in Fort Payne. Here he would remain until able to get around better. At this facility,...
by Lyn Blair | Sep 4, 2006 | dementia/Alzheimer’s, Humor
It’s clear we had reached another crossroad. Dad could never be left alone to live by himself. After a night spent falling out of bed, Dad was exhausted and disoriented. As I sat with him in the Rehab Center, he was looking for cans under the bed and asking me if I’d...
by Lyn Blair | Sep 4, 2006 | dementia/Alzheimer’s, Humor
After dad’s time rehabilitating in the nursing home was over, we spent several weeks with me caring for him at the house. Truly an adjustment for both of us, I figured out the best way to help him bathe, when to have him use his walker, and when to wheel him...