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Skriven 2012-04-25 23:30:29 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: Re: things 56
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 03-24-12  19:56 <=-

 NB>>> And is an antioxidant, and has laxative value... ;)  Also is
 NB>>> good mood food...   ;)
 RH>> With a whole grain diet, I don't need the chocolate for the middle
 RH>> reason. Numbers one and three tho are pretty good reasons to keep it
 RH>> around. (G)
 NB>> I don't NEED it for the middle reason, but once in a while, one does
 NB>> see the helpful results... :)  All good reasons to keep it around.  :)

 RH> I keep it around to keep the asthma under control.
 
Another good reason.

 RH>> My sympathies to your neighbor with the broken elbow; mine still likes
 NB>> progressing well... she's getting back her range of motion pretty
 NB>> well, and everything seems to be healing very well.

 RH> Good news; the elbow has to twist into so many different positions
 RH> that the more range of motion it gets back, the better. I have almost

She's still getting some therapy on the arm, and she's using it almost
normally now.  It could stand to get a little stronger, but that will
come with time as she exercises and uses it.

 RH> full ROM on mine, something the therapist said a lot of people don't
 RH> get. Saw my primary care doctor this week; she put in a consult to have
 RH> the wrist looked at. Between the break & 2 surgeries on it plus the
 RH> elbow break, surgery & nerve damage, she wants to see if there's
 RH> anything else going on in there. I'm going to be using my rotary cutter
 RH> quite a bit in the next few weeks so I want the wrist to be well
 RH> checked out, see if anything can be done for it.

Did you find out anything useful?

 NB>>  What's keeping her in rehab is mostly their worry about her
 NB>> overall ability to take care of herself semi-independently.

 RH> I can see that; if my dad goes first, there's no way my mom could live
 RH> by herself. She's a danger in the kitchen but Dad is there most of the
 RH> time to keep half an eye on her (if he doesn't do the job to begin
 RH> with). 

Gwen has aides to do the kitchen stuff now, and the cleaning, etc, as
well as helping her with her personal care.  The rehab place was being
over-cautious... After their impassioned report on her inability to do
anything at all for herself, and need for 24/7 care and supervision, we
set up a schedule to cover the remaining hours that she didn't have
aides or day program, and got her home instead of relegating her to a
regular nursing home bed, which they recommended.  It's been yet more of
a reason I've not been here, but now that she's home again, and the
schedule is working itself out, I finally have a little time for this
again...  :)  Gwen's daughter Jenny was doing some of the coverage until
she went back into the hospital herself, the granddaughter (Melinda) is
carving out of her busy schedule time to spend to cover hours, and
Richard pinchhits for the little gaps.  A good part of the problem at
the rehab place was that they really weren't helping her to regain her
independence, but rather were doing things that stifled it.  She's
learning some of it back now that she is home.

 RH> They used to write a weekly letter but became more sporadic the
 RH> last couple of years; since January I think they've written once. We
 RH> will Skype chat every so often but we're going to do an "eyes on"
 RH> trip, probably in June to check things out. Last time we were there, I
 RH> replaced some dull, worn out knives, peelers and such like with new,
 RH> sharp ones; they insisted on keeping the old ones on hand so I suspect
 RH> they're the ones getting used. Also need to see if they've kept up on
 RH> the dishwasher maintainence and done anything more toward getting a
 RH> ramp put in.

Always things to keep up with...  As to the old knives and peelers, they
are no doubt familiar with the feel of them in the hand... I know I had
a hard time finding a paring knife that I liked as well as the one I'd
used for years...  I know all about dull knives being dangerous and all
that... but I do understand the reluctance to give up the familiar... :)
  
ttyl        neb

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