Chapter 292 - Events this week
In my dungeon at 2300 on Tuesday last finishing off a few jobs when she called me on the CB radio "That loud bang you probable heard was me falling." She was in bed by the time I got to the bedroom. She had toppled backwards when she was removing her slacks, banging her head against the wardrobe door, sounding louder to her since I had heard nothing, even though there was no music blasting forth from anywhere. No damage to her head, but her bum area was tender for a few days, although there was no bruising. Next morning she complained of aches about her hips.
The next evening, again at 2300, after "making up her pills" for the next day, she was almost unable to push her trolley to the bedroom, stiff little steps, leg pain, needing to sit on a chair partway there.
On Friday at 2200 she had made up her pills and was on her way to the bedroom when she said she "came over strange", light headed and "out of herself". I helped her to the loo and to bed, forgetting to check her blood pressure.
Yesterday, Saturday, at 0830 she ached all over, particularly across her shoulders and back, although her leg tingling may have lessened. At 1730 she mentioned that she is freezing badly, up to an hour before taking her meds, just then due at 1800.
She continues to shower and dress herself, this morning going to the bathroom at 0940, only 20 minutes before her 1000 meds! Freezing? Certainly not this morning.
On Friday she began the next fortnightly adjustment to her meds regime, as follows:
She goes nowhere without the current schedule in a plastic sleeve because following it requires more than normal cognitive ability!
We have a box of VHS tapes hidden in a laundry cupboard and coming upon them the other day she decided to copy them to DVD and donate the tapes to the Tuesday Sheltered Workshop. Ages ago we bought a DVD-VHS player/recorder to easily do this. Legality of doing so??? Yesterday I attempted to copy a tape but resulted in a burnt DVD with only black on it. I unsuccessfully looked for the manual this morning, so pointed out the futility of attempting the procedure again without the manual, hoping if the manual was forever lost I need not concern myself again with this chore. She set to, finding the manual in another cupboard, bringing it to me in my dungeon (damn!). As she pushed her trolley back down the hall she made a comment that I heard as "man this two things it " or similar words in a structured sentence but with too many pronouns I was unable to link the words into a comprehensive whole. I asked her what she was talking about, more pronouns to my ears, another question from me then "don't worry about it" from the far end of the hall. Is she having problems recalling nouns and am I having problems placing pronouns into context?
Just now she is making finishing adjustments to the quilt for the recently arrived niece, having spent days making padded and decorated coat hangers for the Sheltered Workshop. Me? I suppose I must read this sodding VCR/DVD manual!
The next evening, again at 2300, after "making up her pills" for the next day, she was almost unable to push her trolley to the bedroom, stiff little steps, leg pain, needing to sit on a chair partway there.
On Friday at 2200 she had made up her pills and was on her way to the bedroom when she said she "came over strange", light headed and "out of herself". I helped her to the loo and to bed, forgetting to check her blood pressure.
Yesterday, Saturday, at 0830 she ached all over, particularly across her shoulders and back, although her leg tingling may have lessened. At 1730 she mentioned that she is freezing badly, up to an hour before taking her meds, just then due at 1800.
She continues to shower and dress herself, this morning going to the bathroom at 0940, only 20 minutes before her 1000 meds! Freezing? Certainly not this morning.
On Friday she began the next fortnightly adjustment to her meds regime, as follows:
| WEEK 3 Commencing Friday 3rd May 2013 | ||||||
| Friday 3rd | Actual Time | |||||
| 06:00 | Sin 100/25 | Sin CR 200/50 | Deralin 40 | Comtan 200 | Sifrol 1 | |
| 09:00 | ||||||
| 10:00 | Sin 250/25 | Deralin 40 | ||||
| 14:00 | Sin 250/25 | Deralin 40 | Sifrol 0.5 | |||
| 18:00 | Sin 100/25 | Sin CR 200/50 | Deralin 40 | Comtan 200 | Sifrol 1 | |
| 22:00 | Sin 100/25 | Sin CR 200/50 | Deralin 40 | Sifrol 1 |
She goes nowhere without the current schedule in a plastic sleeve because following it requires more than normal cognitive ability!
We have a box of VHS tapes hidden in a laundry cupboard and coming upon them the other day she decided to copy them to DVD and donate the tapes to the Tuesday Sheltered Workshop. Ages ago we bought a DVD-VHS player/recorder to easily do this. Legality of doing so??? Yesterday I attempted to copy a tape but resulted in a burnt DVD with only black on it. I unsuccessfully looked for the manual this morning, so pointed out the futility of attempting the procedure again without the manual, hoping if the manual was forever lost I need not concern myself again with this chore. She set to, finding the manual in another cupboard, bringing it to me in my dungeon (damn!). As she pushed her trolley back down the hall she made a comment that I heard as "man this two things it " or similar words in a structured sentence but with too many pronouns I was unable to link the words into a comprehensive whole. I asked her what she was talking about, more pronouns to my ears, another question from me then "don't worry about it" from the far end of the hall. Is she having problems recalling nouns and am I having problems placing pronouns into context?
Just now she is making finishing adjustments to the quilt for the recently arrived niece, having spent days making padded and decorated coat hangers for the Sheltered Workshop. Me? I suppose I must read this sodding VCR/DVD manual!
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