Posted later 12/12/18 Couple other notes: My mom dumped orange juice in her chocolate milk and drank some of it today. Mmmmm. 🙁 Gotta wonder how her taste buds are working. 🙁 More positive: She has largely stopped obsessing about her stuff for the most part now. #EndALZ
Author: Mark Applegate
Christian, husband, and dad...and a workplace chiropractic geek and cornbread chef on the side. I am also happily the Director of Systems Alignment for the SeniorAge Area Agency on Aging.
Visit From a Friend
Posted early 12/12/18 Mom was wound up today pretty good. She was doing the brain bandit babble (3b) off and on as well. 🙁 More common the last 2 weeks than ever. She had an awkward issue today that I need to discuss with the boss there before I consider whether to post it here…
Typical Day
12/11/18 Reports are pretty typical for mom. She is more wobbly than normal, but her corn is being addressed. This is the very definition of a boring post, but not everything is a peak or valley…thankfully. #EndALZ
Tiptoeing Through the 2s
Posted 12/10/18 To-day the letter combination/word/sound “TO” came to mind as I left from visiting mom. She was a bundle of hyperactivity and confusion today, but had some better moments too. She is still sweet for the most part, which brings me joy. 🙂 Ok…to???? What is this kook up to? I am a hypocritical…
Who Am I?
Posted 12/7/18 I showed up with my boss to see mom while we were out today, and she walked briskly to meet us in the hall then abruptly asked the two of us “Who am I?”. She wasn’t kidding and, unless it was just a short-term thing caused by the change of routine, she was…
Deleting the Web
Posted 12/5/18 Mom had a good day today. Her new roomie is a very sweet lady named, like many of the Sweet 17, Mary. She had a different brain bandit than mom: a virus that caused her essentially complete memory loss. She asks every single day “Why am I here?” I wish she was just…
Loneliness
Posted 12/4/18 Loneliness. We all have times when it scares away our life song bird. Alzheimer’s patients are susceptible more than the most. An observant nurse suggested today that we get mom a new roomie. Mom lost her first roomie a month ago and it upset her profoundly and outwardly…until she forgot. See, sometimes the…
Bells
Posted 12-3-18 “Doesn’t Ring a Bell” – spoken by Pavlov, probably often…now a common phrase for forgetting or not knowing. “Look, Daddy. Teacher says every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.” – Zuzu Bailey ************************************* This pictured ornament was one design of two of our most used store-bought decorations for the 1970s…
Not Too High, Not Too Low
Posted Dec. 2, 2018 The consecutive days of happiness streak ended today at 3 for mom. 🙁 She was a nervous wreck today and spoke mostly in jumbled non-sentences today. She was gathering stuff, talking about things not happening, and being irritable. Had a huge challenge leaving too…the nurses were great in helping. I could tell…
Sweet Visitors
Pam (my sister) and her kids and grandkids visited mom and the Sweet 17 today! Cute pix abound. 🙂 I bet it livened things up around the memory unit. 🙂 #EndALZ