Posted 12/20/22 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.- John 14:27 Hello Friends and Family! Tis’ Christmas season. 🙂 I love this time of year! I love it. I love…
Tag: meds
Squeeze Inn, and the Medicines of Alzheimer’s
Posted 4-4-19 Hi all! Thanks for returning to the digital cornbread table. 🙂 Today’s topic du jour is, go figure, Alzheimer’s and brain meds. Never to be one to overly mind beating metaphorically dead horses, we need to revisit this discussion since you will certainly battle this should you journey with your loved one toward…
Bitter Pill to Swallow
Posted 2-21-19 The idiom dictionary in Writingexplained.org traces the modern usage of the term “bitter/hard pill to swallow” most clearly to 1730’s French historian Rapin Thoyras although tangent uses of pills being a challenge predate even that. Thoyras blurted “This event, which happened the 7th of September, N.S. was immediately follow’d by the relieving of time after,…
Rough
Posted 12/31/18 Mom update…looks like another trip to the hospital for a while to try again to fix the meds that were broken by stomach illness and missed doses. Go figure…if the medicine doesn’t make it into the system, it helps less. 🙁 #EndALZ
Melancholy
Posted 12/30/18 Mom was melancholy at best today. Sprinkled between fighting meds is getting stomach sick potentially from the meds….or from the stomach plague that is spread through the Sweet 17. Go figure…it is hard to enforce hand washing recommendations to folks that cannot remember their own names. We figure it is something she caught…
Mom and Her Meds
Posted 12/28/18 Mom is not taking her meds all the sudden. No good reason…just not willing. They redirect. They mix them in food. Very challenging for an Alzheimer’s patient to understand the importance of regular medications. Thoughts? Also, thoughts and prayers for the Sweet 17. Lots of flu bugs going around. There have been more…
Coastering to a Stop
12/20/18 Roller coaster ride with mom continues. All reports are that she had a good day, Yesterday was also good…looking up. But they further tweaked her meds again just in time to have a terrible visit with Pam and John tonight. Brain meds on a “normal ” brain are hard enough. Working on the chemistry…
Melatonin
Posted 12/13/18 We have a new, simpler med plan for mom now. The Melatonin has naturally helped her sleep, but the anxiety and corresponding hunting and gathering is still a frequent thing. (Mom has been getting sleepy earlier, which will be fine unless she gets up at 4am.) She, like her brain, frantically searches for…