Chapter 248 - Aches Here & There
All yesterday she had an ache in her left shoulder and arm, from the time she rose. I thought little of it until I saw her holding her shoulder in the evening. She had taken no pain killers & was not all that eager to place heat bags on the areas. I found both, heated them several times and also after she went to bed. In the early hours of this morning she asked me to heat them again. Late in the evening she wondered out loud whether she was having heart problems. This morning there is no pain. I hope it was due to the way she was laying in bed the night before.
There are no bed poles on her bed now. Although each pole is only a few cms in diameter, she believed that the poles were distorting her mattress, thereby causing her discomfort. Although I argued that such a small deformity was unlikely to effect her, I removed them anyway. There have been no problems voiced about her getting out of bed, although she took one for use in the motel we stayed in for 2 nights last weekend on the outskirts of Big Smoke.
Last Wednesday we lunched with our friends from the south-west at a small town 45 minutes from here. As with the trip north on the weekend she seemed happy to be travelling along the highway, only occasionally mentioning the number of trucks on the road.
The dentist re-scheduled her appointment for 12:30 rather than 14:30 last Thursday for the convenience of another patient coming from a distance. She was happy to agree to the change, yet when I parked at the dentist's downstairs doorway she was unable to leave the vehicle. I advised the receptionist that she needed to wait 10 minutes before being able to leave the vehicle. Perhaps the chair lifts up the stairs had scared her; I did not ask. The re-scheduling must have confused both of us because we forgot to attend our monthly PD group.
She finished a time consuming crazy quilt last week then began making a collection of small pillows; embroidered of course, and have now been given away. She continues attending her Tuesday "sheltered workshop", I suspect looking forward to mixing with others, most of whom I suspect make her feel cognitively able to face life's little chores. I think she continues doing her Lumosity exercises and regularly does a form of Tai Chi before I get up of a morning.
There are no bed poles on her bed now. Although each pole is only a few cms in diameter, she believed that the poles were distorting her mattress, thereby causing her discomfort. Although I argued that such a small deformity was unlikely to effect her, I removed them anyway. There have been no problems voiced about her getting out of bed, although she took one for use in the motel we stayed in for 2 nights last weekend on the outskirts of Big Smoke.
Last Wednesday we lunched with our friends from the south-west at a small town 45 minutes from here. As with the trip north on the weekend she seemed happy to be travelling along the highway, only occasionally mentioning the number of trucks on the road.
The dentist re-scheduled her appointment for 12:30 rather than 14:30 last Thursday for the convenience of another patient coming from a distance. She was happy to agree to the change, yet when I parked at the dentist's downstairs doorway she was unable to leave the vehicle. I advised the receptionist that she needed to wait 10 minutes before being able to leave the vehicle. Perhaps the chair lifts up the stairs had scared her; I did not ask. The re-scheduling must have confused both of us because we forgot to attend our monthly PD group.
She finished a time consuming crazy quilt last week then began making a collection of small pillows; embroidered of course, and have now been given away. She continues attending her Tuesday "sheltered workshop", I suspect looking forward to mixing with others, most of whom I suspect make her feel cognitively able to face life's little chores. I think she continues doing her Lumosity exercises and regularly does a form of Tai Chi before I get up of a morning.
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