Well, Grandma is still doing well. Here appetite is back and she is getting around with out her cane/s in the house. She wants to get out now. Not always out of the vehicle, but out and about town.
I hope you are all well. Sean is preparing to go to TX for training in Oct. Shelby is working with the same little boy as last year. Hopefully this will be her last year that she will be an aide and she will have her own classroom.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
9-9-09 UPDATE
WOW, this has been a great week.
1. Grandma's blood thinning medication is finally stable again. She doesn't have to have her ProTime checked for 4 weeks instead of every week.
2. Her new diabetic medication is working with fewer side effects than the other one. She doesn't have to see the doc for 1 month (instead of every week).
3. The walker stays in the bathroom for security there. She was using 2 canes for a couple of days and today she went to get her hair done, doctor visit and I took her out to lunch and she only used one of them, even though she took 2.
She is SO much better. I know that this has to do with several things.
I. I have gotten frustrated with her and told her so on several occasions.
2. I told her that I would do everything I could to help her, but she had to want to get better and until she showed me that, I was not going to baby her.
3. I put her on a very good multivitamin that I know dissolves as it is not a tablet, but a capsule.
4. I started giving her tumeric. This is used as a gentle detox of the liver to get all 3 of the POWERFUL antibiotics out of her system. It started working in about a week.
I am happy to say that she is laughing now and very proud that she is getting better and told the nurse today that she plans on getting good enough to drive again so she can be independent. YIPEE!
Thanks to everyone for all the prayers, good thoughts and everything else you have done for my Mom.
Jennie
1. Grandma's blood thinning medication is finally stable again. She doesn't have to have her ProTime checked for 4 weeks instead of every week.
2. Her new diabetic medication is working with fewer side effects than the other one. She doesn't have to see the doc for 1 month (instead of every week).
3. The walker stays in the bathroom for security there. She was using 2 canes for a couple of days and today she went to get her hair done, doctor visit and I took her out to lunch and she only used one of them, even though she took 2.
She is SO much better. I know that this has to do with several things.
I. I have gotten frustrated with her and told her so on several occasions.
2. I told her that I would do everything I could to help her, but she had to want to get better and until she showed me that, I was not going to baby her.
3. I put her on a very good multivitamin that I know dissolves as it is not a tablet, but a capsule.
4. I started giving her tumeric. This is used as a gentle detox of the liver to get all 3 of the POWERFUL antibiotics out of her system. It started working in about a week.
I am happy to say that she is laughing now and very proud that she is getting better and told the nurse today that she plans on getting good enough to drive again so she can be independent. YIPEE!
Thanks to everyone for all the prayers, good thoughts and everything else you have done for my Mom.
Jennie
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Sept. 5 2009
WELL, Grandma is finally making enough progress that I can see it. I put her on Tumeric (in the curry family of spices). It is supposed to do a gentle detox of the liver. Just what people have been telling me she needed to get rid of the antibiotics. I have to believe that is is working. She WANTS to do her exercises so she can get stronger. She is eating better and her memory is much better. Now, we just have to get her pulse up. It has been running in the 44 range. Needs to be up. Dr. B. took her off of one of her meds. that makes her pulse slow and it is coming up just a little bit, but it has not even been a week.
Her new diabetic medication seems to be working well. Those numbers are running in the 120's to 140's and her picky internist is very happy with the numbers.
If all the next few weeks get better and better, I will be a happy daughter. Now we just have to put some weight back on her. She has lost a LOT.
I hope to be updating this with more good news often...
Jennie
Her new diabetic medication seems to be working well. Those numbers are running in the 120's to 140's and her picky internist is very happy with the numbers.
If all the next few weeks get better and better, I will be a happy daughter. Now we just have to put some weight back on her. She has lost a LOT.
I hope to be updating this with more good news often...
Jennie
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