Chapter 254 - Harder Times
Monday last week she had a Holter monitor fitted, wore it for 24 hours and it was removed the following day. We have had no calls asking her to visit the GP so I presume the measurements were acceptable. During the 24 hours she experienced no noticeable events, although in the days preceding the test her blood pressure dropped on several occasions to 92/63 according to her wrist BP monitor and then on Sunday 1st July while we attended our First of the Month Lunch at our village hall (we feel we should attend to swell the numbers, only 5 others were present & we see so little of other residents these days) she experienced an event when her vision was "fuzzy" and "distant" - very difficult to get a good description of her experience.
She seems to suffer extreme lower back pains after attending her Tuesday Day Respite, possibly because she has to sit for too long in an unsuitable chair. So much so that last Wednesday & Thursday I was repeatedly called on the CB to help her rise to walk to the toilet & the like. And when she does get her feet moving her steps are so small she hardly makes any progress. I encouraged her onto the tread-mill which at the very slowest speed helps her relax a little. Unfortunately, effort is required on my part to have her use the tread - mill. She does not object to using it, but she never volunteers, and when I suggest doing so, usually her meds are "off", because that of course is when her movement difficulties are worst.
One night she was in so much pain getting out of bed that I brought the commode into the bedroom again to save her walking to the loo. Even then I found difficulty in pivoting her onto the commode due to her pain. She used the commode for two nights then she was able to go to the bathroom. One night she rose 5 times and I feared another UTI, but loo visits have returned to only 2, 3 at the outside, each night.
We have opted out of meeting friends at clubs in other country towns as we were in the habit of doing lately, mainly due to her not being up to travelling. On the other hand, I am not pushing to have these day trips because on the return trip from seeing the neuro at Hot Air City a couple of weeks ago felt so tired I had to pull into a rest stop & sleep for about half an hour, and we were only about 15 minutes from home! Anyway, next Wednesday we are scheduled to meet the Ugly Sisters at the club up the 4 lane for lunch. Just to get out & about we went to the local club to have coffee yesterday afternoon as well as to buy her puzzle magazines, which she religiously works through each week. Although she intermittently continues with Lumosity exercises, she diligently completes all the puzzles in "That's Life" and "Take Five" each week, although it is a long time since she won a prize of any sort.
She continues to produce handcrafts at a great rate, now knitting ladies handbags (she lines them in matching fabric) from the cheap knobbly balls of "wool" that have appeared in all her favourite junk shops. The incomplete crocheted rug from Day Respite was pulled apart, reconstructed, sewn back together then crocheted a border around it. I think they were impressed with her efforts.
She seems to suffer extreme lower back pains after attending her Tuesday Day Respite, possibly because she has to sit for too long in an unsuitable chair. So much so that last Wednesday & Thursday I was repeatedly called on the CB to help her rise to walk to the toilet & the like. And when she does get her feet moving her steps are so small she hardly makes any progress. I encouraged her onto the tread-mill which at the very slowest speed helps her relax a little. Unfortunately, effort is required on my part to have her use the tread - mill. She does not object to using it, but she never volunteers, and when I suggest doing so, usually her meds are "off", because that of course is when her movement difficulties are worst.
One night she was in so much pain getting out of bed that I brought the commode into the bedroom again to save her walking to the loo. Even then I found difficulty in pivoting her onto the commode due to her pain. She used the commode for two nights then she was able to go to the bathroom. One night she rose 5 times and I feared another UTI, but loo visits have returned to only 2, 3 at the outside, each night.
We have opted out of meeting friends at clubs in other country towns as we were in the habit of doing lately, mainly due to her not being up to travelling. On the other hand, I am not pushing to have these day trips because on the return trip from seeing the neuro at Hot Air City a couple of weeks ago felt so tired I had to pull into a rest stop & sleep for about half an hour, and we were only about 15 minutes from home! Anyway, next Wednesday we are scheduled to meet the Ugly Sisters at the club up the 4 lane for lunch. Just to get out & about we went to the local club to have coffee yesterday afternoon as well as to buy her puzzle magazines, which she religiously works through each week. Although she intermittently continues with Lumosity exercises, she diligently completes all the puzzles in "That's Life" and "Take Five" each week, although it is a long time since she won a prize of any sort.
She continues to produce handcrafts at a great rate, now knitting ladies handbags (she lines them in matching fabric) from the cheap knobbly balls of "wool" that have appeared in all her favourite junk shops. The incomplete crocheted rug from Day Respite was pulled apart, reconstructed, sewn back together then crocheted a border around it. I think they were impressed with her efforts.
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