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Skriven 2015-08-27 14:40:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: Peppers
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 08-19-15  21:53 <=-

 RH>> You know she was glad to be back, even tho it tired her out. It still
 RH>> did her a world of good. Hopefully she will continue to regain her
 RH>> strength and stamina so she can come back on a regular basis.
 NB>> She was back again this past Sunday... :)  It was communion, and she
 NB>> hates to miss that... :)

 RH> Great news! I suspect she's doing better yet now.

Probably... I've not actually seen her since before I left for the Pond
for the picnic, since she doesn't come for evening service... and my car
turns out to be needing struts replaced (turns out that was the noise,
not just a bushing), so I'm not driving anywhere until that gets fixed. 
But, did talk a little to my sister in text while we were up at the
Pond, and it appears that she continues to improve, since she said
nothing to the contrary...  

 RH>>> As she regains her strength..........
 NB>>> And her mobility...  :)
 RH>> I wouldn't be surprised if she's on a walker for a good while yet,
 RH>> tho at some point they may let her try using a cane. Dad went from a
 RH>> walker to a cane to nothing after his first break but was back on a
 RH>> walker by the time he broke the 2nd hip. He's still on the walker,
 RH>> and much slower than even a few months ago.
 NB>> So far she's not even on the walker yet, except when the PT is there
 NB>> and using it to help her stand... Before all this started up, she was
 NB>> already using the rolling walker most of the time in the apartment,
 NB>> with the quad cane handy in case she forgot and left the walker
 NB>> somewhere... and being transported longer distances in her transit
 NB>> chair...  But I expect that she'll progress to the rolling walker
 NB>> in the apartment again, at least eventually... :)

 RH> In time she will start using it. Does she do any of her meal fixing?
 RH> That could get a bit tricky, leaning over the walker. Harder, tho
 RH> would probably bringing the plate to the table.

Lydia makes her main meals... including her breakfast oatmeal... She'd
been mixing up her own supper, Breakfast Essentials in either dark
chocolate or in french vanilla mixed with milk...  But that was back
when she was mostly just using the quad cane... Now someone mixes that
up for her, too...  :)   I suppose she might be able to get back to
that... have the walker to the side while she stands at the counter to
mix it up, put the glass of "shake" and the small plate of graham
crackers on the seat of the walker and wheel the four, five feet to the
table, remove the glass and plate to the table, and then sit down at the
table..  ;)  But that assumes using the walker mostly for occasional
stability and insurance rather than depending on it to keep one up...

ttyl           neb

... Apparently, "Now More Cashews!" is code for "Now Only Two Pecans!"

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