Mom has another blood clot in her knee - not as bad as in 2010, but they had to put her back on blood thinners, and she doesn't understand all the needles. She never liked needles, but now they make her mad.
I visited today, and she just didn't seem well - more disoriented than normal. She'd been having nosebleeds from the blood thinners and was just mad in general. She seemed glad to see me and H, but I'm not sure she knew who we were. I was glad E didn't go, b/c it would have been scary today.
She was angry and she hadn't had a shower - the nurse said they hadn't pushed it today or yesterday b/c she'd been combative about the blood draws. I didn't blame them, no need to cause a ruckus. They were making her stay in the community room so they could keep an eye on her nose, and she was mad about that. She was just mad in general.
I hate this disease.
H was so sweet though, she asked mom if she could brush her hair, and she let her.
Then she acted out different animals trying to get mom to guess. She guessed a few, and we got her laughing before we left. We were there at shift change and spoke to the next nurse too, she's a riot - always singing and laughing and when she saw H doing charades she jumped right in pretending to not understand and making mom feel better. She also said - I hear these other nurses have made you mad?
Mom said: yeah, good and mad. She said: ohhhh help us we all know good and mad is bad. ;)
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