Chapter 192 - Fading Indian Summer
We drove down to Home Town on the Friday before Easter. After being cooped in the truck for about 4 hours with only rest stops at that wonderfully named place "Book 'Em" then a MacDonald's near the tucker Box she found she needed some exercise. So she with her walker & I at her side we walked all the way 7 or 8 blocks from the railway edge of town down to the main mall area of town. She needed a few pauses along the way. Apart from the exercise, she had forgotten to pack any female shoulder harnesses which we had to buy at Kmart. Most of the town was shut due to a half holiday celebrating Home Town Cup Day. On the return leg we ate pasta dishes seated at tables on the footpath - we had eaten there before. She was not keen to eat at this place but outside there was plenty of room and we were able to dawdle across 6pm when she took her pills.
Friday's drive did not tense her too much, now that the majority of it is 4 lanes. However, she was in a bad way after we drove to the country residence of my 2nd cousin, a short distance down a dirt road after we did some 20kms in winding 2 laned bitumen. And I was driving so slowly and carefully that some dozen vehicles had banked up behind us. She seemed to enjoy meeting these relatives of mine, and fitted in well.
Next day, Sunday, when I said I wished to drive to the old family property to take photos of the walnut tree that was very mature and large when I was a kid, she was fearful that I intended to drive along the same road as the day before. Not so. Then we drove around the town on that side of the border so I could take pictures of areas, unrecognisable now, where I spent a few short years as a kid. Also found a caravan park suitable for us if we return in a few weeks for a small family get-together.
On the Monday we returned home via a town where an old friend is now living. She was relieved to be home just as night fell.
She was fearful of commencing the new Madopar, intent on delaying its commencement until all her stock of Sinemet CR had run out. I convinced her that it was best to begin the Madopar earlier, in case it did not agree with her, to cause her to fall back to the Sinemet. Allowing Tuesday as a rest day after the trip, she began the Madopar on Wednesday last.
Her meds regime is now:
0600 2 x Madopar HBS SR 100/25
1 x Sifrol 1.0
1 x Derelin 40
0900 2 x Panadol Osteo
1200 2 x Madopar HBS SR 100/25
1 x Sifrol 1.0
1 x Derelin 40
1700 2 x Panadol Osteo
1800 2 x Madopar HBS SR 100/25
1 x Sifrol 1.0
1 x Derelin 40
1 x Astrix 100
2400 2 x Madopar HBS SR 100/25
1 x Derelin 40
2 x Panadol Osteo
and a quantity of anti-oxidants which I think I recorded earlier.
In order to keep track of any problems & trends I have started to keep notes on daily events & issues as I once did. This will possibly not continue beyond a week should nothing untoward happen due to the Madopar.
During last Tuesday through to Thursday she had so much leg pain, upper 7 lower, that she was often in tears whenever she needed to walk. She has been using her small table/walker around the house. I relocated the dirty clothes basket from our bedroom to our main bathroom to allow her easier access, especially at night when she relies on the walker to go to the loo, rather than waking me. Several days she used her TENS machine 3 times in a row to relieve the pain. Her pan was so bad that at times she was unable to lift her feet, instead shuffling on foot in front of the other without taking steps at all. I decided to cancel our planned caravan trip to Crow Country next week. Since this weekend is Easter when the Ugly Sisters religiously gather at the caravan park in the southern highlands, we were planning to make a day visit to see them. She was not very interested in going until I pressed her to ring to say we were intending to visit on Saturday - at that point she said the area "is too uneven" for her walking comfort and rang to say we will not come. On Friday she used her street walker to go to the "fish & chip" luncheon at our village hall.
I was not keen to take her for another session with K on Thursday, following our experience last week. This time she was invited into the room only a few minutes and was given a top to toe work-out that seems to have done her the world of good. Her shoulders feel square and somehow taller and the leg pain is usually in the calves now. She continues Wii Fit almost every morning (the pain hindered her a couple of days), does one or more short walks on the treadmill and I suggested the exercise bike yesterday morning but the resulting frictional after effects has decided her not to use it again.
What with the pain and the trip away she had stopped quilting. Yesterday she began the finishing touches to the two bed quilts almost completed. She found attempting to mark chalk lines was beyond her, was about to pack the lot away but I decided to mark some for her. Some hours later I learned that she had continued with her own efforts, not in need in my help. She continues quilting this morning, I sometimes here the sewing machine, sometimes the clatter of scissors on the table.
She must be sitting too long; time for a few minutes of treadmill.
Perhaps the Indian summer continues.
Friday's drive did not tense her too much, now that the majority of it is 4 lanes. However, she was in a bad way after we drove to the country residence of my 2nd cousin, a short distance down a dirt road after we did some 20kms in winding 2 laned bitumen. And I was driving so slowly and carefully that some dozen vehicles had banked up behind us. She seemed to enjoy meeting these relatives of mine, and fitted in well.
Next day, Sunday, when I said I wished to drive to the old family property to take photos of the walnut tree that was very mature and large when I was a kid, she was fearful that I intended to drive along the same road as the day before. Not so. Then we drove around the town on that side of the border so I could take pictures of areas, unrecognisable now, where I spent a few short years as a kid. Also found a caravan park suitable for us if we return in a few weeks for a small family get-together.
On the Monday we returned home via a town where an old friend is now living. She was relieved to be home just as night fell.
She was fearful of commencing the new Madopar, intent on delaying its commencement until all her stock of Sinemet CR had run out. I convinced her that it was best to begin the Madopar earlier, in case it did not agree with her, to cause her to fall back to the Sinemet. Allowing Tuesday as a rest day after the trip, she began the Madopar on Wednesday last.
Her meds regime is now:
0600 2 x Madopar HBS SR 100/25
1 x Sifrol 1.0
1 x Derelin 40
0900 2 x Panadol Osteo
1200 2 x Madopar HBS SR 100/25
1 x Sifrol 1.0
1 x Derelin 40
1700 2 x Panadol Osteo
1800 2 x Madopar HBS SR 100/25
1 x Sifrol 1.0
1 x Derelin 40
1 x Astrix 100
2400 2 x Madopar HBS SR 100/25
1 x Derelin 40
2 x Panadol Osteo
and a quantity of anti-oxidants which I think I recorded earlier.
In order to keep track of any problems & trends I have started to keep notes on daily events & issues as I once did. This will possibly not continue beyond a week should nothing untoward happen due to the Madopar.
During last Tuesday through to Thursday she had so much leg pain, upper 7 lower, that she was often in tears whenever she needed to walk. She has been using her small table/walker around the house. I relocated the dirty clothes basket from our bedroom to our main bathroom to allow her easier access, especially at night when she relies on the walker to go to the loo, rather than waking me. Several days she used her TENS machine 3 times in a row to relieve the pain. Her pan was so bad that at times she was unable to lift her feet, instead shuffling on foot in front of the other without taking steps at all. I decided to cancel our planned caravan trip to Crow Country next week. Since this weekend is Easter when the Ugly Sisters religiously gather at the caravan park in the southern highlands, we were planning to make a day visit to see them. She was not very interested in going until I pressed her to ring to say we were intending to visit on Saturday - at that point she said the area "is too uneven" for her walking comfort and rang to say we will not come. On Friday she used her street walker to go to the "fish & chip" luncheon at our village hall.
I was not keen to take her for another session with K on Thursday, following our experience last week. This time she was invited into the room only a few minutes and was given a top to toe work-out that seems to have done her the world of good. Her shoulders feel square and somehow taller and the leg pain is usually in the calves now. She continues Wii Fit almost every morning (the pain hindered her a couple of days), does one or more short walks on the treadmill and I suggested the exercise bike yesterday morning but the resulting frictional after effects has decided her not to use it again.
What with the pain and the trip away she had stopped quilting. Yesterday she began the finishing touches to the two bed quilts almost completed. She found attempting to mark chalk lines was beyond her, was about to pack the lot away but I decided to mark some for her. Some hours later I learned that she had continued with her own efforts, not in need in my help. She continues quilting this morning, I sometimes here the sewing machine, sometimes the clatter of scissors on the table.
She must be sitting too long; time for a few minutes of treadmill.
Perhaps the Indian summer continues.
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