Chapter 494 - Was It a Dream?
Yesterday I was surprised when the Wild Dog Carer, who came to give her her Friday morning exercises, congratulated me. "What for?" I asked. "For becoming a great-grandfather of a little boy" she replied. Somewhat embarrassed, I had to explain that to my knowledge, based on advice about two weeks old, that nothing had happened yet. I suspect someone had been dreaming or imagining the good news; she was unperturbed by the confusion. I was tempted to phone in the hope that a genetic defect has not been passed to another generation but decided not to, having no wish to worry her.
I am continuing the lower stepped doses on her Duodopa pump. According to the FitBit traces of her right leg, she suffers less dyskinesias yet she seems unaware of the reduction possible because many are of small amplitude and are often "inside" her legs not noticeable to the eye. I have problems remembering to make the frequent changes so I attempted to re-programme our TabTimer, a real test of my cognitive skills but after display segments began failing (I suspect I caused that) I found an application to run on my Galaxy that does the job but that means I need to carry the thing with me all day. Of an afternoon she still looks for a chair or something similar to raise her legs for comfort. She usually prefers not to have the "legs" and footplates attached to her wheel chair.
Perhaps the lower Duodopa flow rates tend to make her sleepy of an afternoon but no further sudden sleep events have occurred.
Last Sunday another slight ano-rectal prolapse happened. We have another referral for a specialist who I must contact in the coming week. I saw a reference somewhere that probiotics may be helpful for constipation and wondered whether taking such after her tooth extraction may have been the reason for her bowels being "looser" and expelling a mass rather than "marbles". Although I have not consulted any type of medical professional about this, I on-line ordered two bottles of "50 Billion" probiotics and she now takes one each day at breakfast. An obvious side effect is flatulence which she confuses with a need for a bowel movement. Her bowel movements, mostly, are bulky, soft and only sometimes an odd marble or two.
We attended our local PD group on Thursday because the local dance group that ran the trial Dance for PD classes recently were to tell us all about the dancing. Having attended the trial classes, streamed classes from Toronto and bought the DVD and CD set from Brooklyn (which she performs to most mornings for an hour) we didn't really need to attend but she wanted to and afterwards we visited her podiatrist before having lunch at the club.
For some weeks I have ordered our groceries on line for delivery, partly due to the phasing out of single use plastic bags. Also I am fed up with the multiple handling and standing in queues. So our weekend excursions down town are much more pleasant for me not having to rush about if she remains in the car or the frustration of pushing a wheel chair with a trolley attached midst other old farts and the general crowds.
Such a beautiful fresh sunny morning to day I pushed her in her wheel chair around our village.
I am continuing the lower stepped doses on her Duodopa pump. According to the FitBit traces of her right leg, she suffers less dyskinesias yet she seems unaware of the reduction possible because many are of small amplitude and are often "inside" her legs not noticeable to the eye. I have problems remembering to make the frequent changes so I attempted to re-programme our TabTimer, a real test of my cognitive skills but after display segments began failing (I suspect I caused that) I found an application to run on my Galaxy that does the job but that means I need to carry the thing with me all day. Of an afternoon she still looks for a chair or something similar to raise her legs for comfort. She usually prefers not to have the "legs" and footplates attached to her wheel chair.
Perhaps the lower Duodopa flow rates tend to make her sleepy of an afternoon but no further sudden sleep events have occurred.
Last Sunday another slight ano-rectal prolapse happened. We have another referral for a specialist who I must contact in the coming week. I saw a reference somewhere that probiotics may be helpful for constipation and wondered whether taking such after her tooth extraction may have been the reason for her bowels being "looser" and expelling a mass rather than "marbles". Although I have not consulted any type of medical professional about this, I on-line ordered two bottles of "50 Billion" probiotics and she now takes one each day at breakfast. An obvious side effect is flatulence which she confuses with a need for a bowel movement. Her bowel movements, mostly, are bulky, soft and only sometimes an odd marble or two.
We attended our local PD group on Thursday because the local dance group that ran the trial Dance for PD classes recently were to tell us all about the dancing. Having attended the trial classes, streamed classes from Toronto and bought the DVD and CD set from Brooklyn (which she performs to most mornings for an hour) we didn't really need to attend but she wanted to and afterwards we visited her podiatrist before having lunch at the club.
For some weeks I have ordered our groceries on line for delivery, partly due to the phasing out of single use plastic bags. Also I am fed up with the multiple handling and standing in queues. So our weekend excursions down town are much more pleasant for me not having to rush about if she remains in the car or the frustration of pushing a wheel chair with a trolley attached midst other old farts and the general crowds.
Such a beautiful fresh sunny morning to day I pushed her in her wheel chair around our village.
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