Day 1

Momma arrived at my home today around 10:30 am. I had spent the last two days getting everything just perfect for her arrival and had bought grocieries to prepare her favorite meal as a celebration for her tonight- she has been in a faclity or hospital for the past 2 months. My older sister brought her to my home and my husband helped us get her in the house. She said many times how happy she was to be at my house and commented on my fall decorations. She loved the way I had set up her "Space" in our great room- complete with the hospital bed that was delivered yesterday.
She slept off and on today and I could tell that she was more relaxed than I have seen her in quite a while. During her sleep she was not restless and slept so soundly that she snored at ti mes. We ate dinner around 4pm and it consisted of her favorites- peas, corn, okra, squash casserole- (people in the south don't need meat with all of our meals- especially this one! )I had even purchased her favorite cake at Costco with the strawberry filling inside - she felt so special and said I should have known you would do something like that.""She ate slower than the rest of us and this is because she is still recovering from a shoulder fracture- but she really enjoyed her food- after the meal I fixed her a cup of coffee to go with her cake-After cleaning the kitchen, I pushed her in her wheel chair onto our deck where she enjoyed sitting and taking in the view- I found myself getting really sleepy while we talked on the deck- and I asked her if we could go in so that i could lay on the couch- she agreed-
around this time my boys came home from school and she was happy to see them- she layed in her bed for a while and dozed off and on- finally around 7:30 I gave her her night time meds and convinced her to put on her night gown- she wanted to sleep in just a shirt and her diaper. I don't think she realizes that with two teenage boys in the house and my hsband- they may get embarrased more easily. My husband came home from work and had purchased a baby monitor for us to use at night so that we could hear her call for us- I put her to sleep and asked if she needed to go to the bathroom and she said no- I went upstairs, took a bath, came down stairs and she was moaning a bit- saying"she was hurting in her paperclip"- I guess this is what the experts call sundowning- when alzhemers patients get really confused at night. I reassured her- went back upstairs to check my email and I heard her call for mother- she does this when she is confused- she said she needed to go to the bathrooom- I took her and gave her a tylenol because she said her shoulder hurt- I also gave her a Rozerem that the doctor had prescribed for sleep when necessary- back up to the computer I go only to scare myself when reading the side effects of Rozerem- oh well- we'll see how much sleep we get tonight!







































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