Chapter 128 - Bruises
Over a couple of days a large violet bruise gradually appeared on her left hip (I think the left; I will not ask because she will say you don't need to know). No comment about the sore spot on her right leg. In discussing her fall on Saturday, we believe the following to be the sequence of events: the neighbour came to the back door with a pamphlet, seated in her favourite chair she reached up to unlatch the door & push it open, she took the pamphlet, raised herself out of the chair without difficulty, said "Wait a moment, I have the magazines for you", disappeared into her sewing room some dozen paces away, returned, handed the magazines to the neighbour then fell in a heap. After getting her seated again, she said that her vision faded, although I had the impression at the time that she had suggested a brightening. Later she just said everything became fuzzy.
The mornings of Saturday, Sunday & Monday she missed her 2am Sinimet CR. The alarm is no longer set for 2am, instead she relies on her tremors to wake her, so missing the dose suggests her tremors were not disturbing her unduly through those nights. Last night was different, awaking at 3am with severe leg tremors, she took the Sinimet CR. Tremors kept her awake until 5:30am when she woke me to help her sort out her legs. Her body was all a tremble. In a lather of sweat, although the morning was cool, she took a couple of Panamax then sat on the side of her bed until 6am when she took her 6am CR & Inderal. After awhile her body calmed down, she got into bed and slept until 8:15. She has been showering, drying & dressing herself each morning with only some difficulty for quite a few days now. Today she has been subdued & quiet.
Two things come to mind that may have stressed her & induced last night's problems. Yesterday she attended KYB after an absence of a few weeks. Although the meeting dragged on for almost 2 hours, she did not seem stressed on leaving, although I was from having to wait so long. Then we attended our usual "First of the Month" BYO lunch at our hall. Then late in the afternoon she called me on the CB. Our neighbours from the rear were there seated talking to her. The husband has made the decision not to continue with his thrice weekly dialysis sessions at the hospital. It's not that he has given up; he has come to the decision before other complications overtake him. His wife took him down to palliative care this afternoon. He won't be returning. I told him that I didn't really know what to say and we shook hands, I squeezed too tightly, hurting his arthritic hand. He is a brave man. I think that we have been taken into a confidence that no other neighbour knows about. Anyway, today I asked her whether that knowledge was bothering her; it was.
The mornings of Saturday, Sunday & Monday she missed her 2am Sinimet CR. The alarm is no longer set for 2am, instead she relies on her tremors to wake her, so missing the dose suggests her tremors were not disturbing her unduly through those nights. Last night was different, awaking at 3am with severe leg tremors, she took the Sinimet CR. Tremors kept her awake until 5:30am when she woke me to help her sort out her legs. Her body was all a tremble. In a lather of sweat, although the morning was cool, she took a couple of Panamax then sat on the side of her bed until 6am when she took her 6am CR & Inderal. After awhile her body calmed down, she got into bed and slept until 8:15. She has been showering, drying & dressing herself each morning with only some difficulty for quite a few days now. Today she has been subdued & quiet.
Two things come to mind that may have stressed her & induced last night's problems. Yesterday she attended KYB after an absence of a few weeks. Although the meeting dragged on for almost 2 hours, she did not seem stressed on leaving, although I was from having to wait so long. Then we attended our usual "First of the Month" BYO lunch at our hall. Then late in the afternoon she called me on the CB. Our neighbours from the rear were there seated talking to her. The husband has made the decision not to continue with his thrice weekly dialysis sessions at the hospital. It's not that he has given up; he has come to the decision before other complications overtake him. His wife took him down to palliative care this afternoon. He won't be returning. I told him that I didn't really know what to say and we shook hands, I squeezed too tightly, hurting his arthritic hand. He is a brave man. I think that we have been taken into a confidence that no other neighbour knows about. Anyway, today I asked her whether that knowledge was bothering her; it was.
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