As I restocked my herbal formulas & stir them into my coffee this morning with a pledge to “do better”…
Gavin has many miraculous tales of health transformations on his website - initially I got into this intermittent fasting routine of course, to lose weight! but now I am hoping if I’m diligent about it something will flip the switch to improve my health and energy levels.
This is been one hell of a week and I am whupped, but I’ve got to finish my coffee and keep moving. I have escorted mom to dinner every night this week, but last night we were supposed to go out with my cousin and her phone was not ringing through. Obviously I’m gonna have to get her a conventional phone since she now leaves the cordless handset off the hook until the battery runs out. I was finishing my final desperate clean-out of the cottage on Thursday, so I have not had a meeting with the team at Arabella to discuss mom‘s routine. While it’s all well and good for her to “press the button when she needs help”, she could be lying on the floor while insisting that she’s alright… I want someone to help her walk the dog 3X daily - even though Abby is a tiny little dog, she can pull hard enough I’m afraid she could trip mom up or pull her off-balance. Probably a twice-weekly showering schedule will be adequate - it hurts my heart to think that I left a $17,000 walk-in tub as a donation to her old facility, but you should’ve heard Mom griping at me last Sunday when I gave her her last bath: “Don’t fill it up all the way - it uses too much hot water!” (She wouldn’t let Sonia fill the tub completely either, but she would sit in it while she basically soaked her feet while Sonia rinsed her off with the handset) So there was another one of Val’s bright ideas which failed miserably - let’s install a walk-in tub so it feels more like home!
At least she answered the phone this morning and seemed reasonably content with her breakfast bar and coffee - filling the reservoir on the coffee pot is another chore for the caretakers since mom does not have the grip strength to handle it.
Sample menu at Arabella
Sounds like a good deal of progress. I've been sidelined for a week, so far, with RSV. I am not out of the woods yet, but I am better today than yesterday, so I'll count that as progress, too.
ReplyDeleteStay healthy as you navigate the next steps!
I have a feeling if her appetite is met with food she likes, part of her will settle in. My dad was in a place for respite care after his stroke at 78, and his first comments were about the food he didn't have to cook!
ReplyDeleteI got a button for him that also detected falls. It worked the day he took a hard land on the stairs but was fine. They called him right away(intercom) and he assured them he sat hard on the stairs and was ok. It worked!
I like the little foil packets. I'm easily entertained. I like I.F.
ReplyDeleteI would love to have a walk-in tub.
It sounds like things are going well so far. After viewing the menu I might want to live there.