Mom update: 112 Mom is steadily progressing these past few days. The past two days she sat up in a chair for 4 to 5 hours. She has been working her word puzzles again, albeit slowly. There is definitely a cognitive difference in her personality and she confuses very many words. She is now off of morphine and dilaudid and only takes a percocet every 4 to 6 hours. Because of this we know that her pain meds are not contributing to the confusion. She refuses to drink any of the nutrition or protein shakes or eat any meat. She does eat cottage cheese and fruit and loves raisin bread. I talked to her tonight and asked her to tough it up and drink at least one of the protein shakes everyday. They do not taste that bad. I feel bad because it hurt her feelings and she started crying in the mindset that I was criticizing her. I smoothed that over quickly by asking her if she wanted any barbecue pork. Her eyes lit up like a kid does for ice cream. Mission accomplished! :-) I got her to eat protein. If I have to I will get her BBQ pork everyday if she will just eat the protein. Medicine and therapy are not effective without good nutrition. It took almost 5 hours to finish pressure washing the sidewalk and brick mailboxes. They are sparkling clean but boy am I tired. The temperature of 40 is not that bad until your clothes and feet are soaking wet. :-) Good night all and thanks for your continued prayers. God bless. :-)
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 03:28:10 +0000