Still goin' strong...

and no other changes. No news is good news.

I understand there may be some question about her days and there may be a decision to postpone the surgery on the short term to make sure the Medicare/Medicaid days are available. More on this later.

Otherwise, everyone is doing just fine- Mom keeps exercising and building her strength. Dad keeps doing what Dad does, and we are just as busy as always, but always enjoy our visits at the nursing home. Mom would love to hear from you or see you. If you comment to the blog, I print them out and take them up to her, so feel free to let her know you are thinking about her- it really helps!

Days are draggin by...

but still things are pretty good. She's really starting to get bored again, so hopefully the time will move by quickly. The staff and all have been good to her, and she's still eating well, but TV is pretty boring. She still reads a lot and does puzzles, but it just seems time is dragging by.

Pam bought her some cards to choose from so she was able to give Dad a Valentine card. Holidays do tend to bring out the boredom and situation all the more, so it was nice that she had somewhat of a choice.

Otherwise, it's still going well. She's getting over the cough and cold pretty quickly; they continue to treat her for it. The changing weather (hot one day, cold the next) doesn't help a lot.

Hopefully, the new week will bring a renewed enthusiasm for her to get dressed and get around in the wheelchair some more.

No update is good update...

Not to jinx anyone-- but this has been some pretty good days. She is calmly awaiting March 5- Knee-day. She's had somewhat of a cold this week (mostly bad cough), but with the weird weather and all kinds of sickness going through church, towns, and schools, it's a wonder she hasn't gotten anything worse than that. They have given her some extra medicine and put her back on the breathing treatments, but other than that, nothing's new.

We continue to be amazed that she has such a positive outlook. Occupational therapy has ended (she's running out of various times of therapy, etc.), but she and Dad are "working out" on their own. (One of the comments made about OT is that she has learned to write again, which is fascinating considering she told one of her friends from Big Spring that she wouldn't be able to write anymore back in April. She's writing in books and working puzzles, crosswords, sodukus[?], things like that.) They have stopped physical therapy to save all her days once the knee surgery is completed (post March 5).

So, it's just a waiting game. She watches some TV (it's pretty lousy in the nursing home) but reads a lot and works puzzles, etc. They are trying to get her showered and in the wheelchair as least one hour per day, hopefully longer. She is convinced that, once she recovers from the knee surgery, she'll be able to get out.

We are, too...