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Skriven 2015-09-01 21:10:00 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 08-28-15  20:19 <=-

 NB>>> She was back again this past Sunday... :)  It was communion, and
 NB>>> she hates to miss that... :)
 RH>> Great news! I suspect she's doing better yet now.
 NB>> Probably... I've not actually seen her since before I left for the
 NB>> Pond for the picnic, since she doesn't come for evening service... and

 RH> You'll probably see her this week end tho, and give her a big hug.

Yup, she was again in church Sunday morning... there was a reception
after the service out on the front lawn, and they stayed for that, too. 
She transfered out of the wheelchair into the pew for the service, and
seemed to be doing pretty well at the being on her feet, so that's good
progress too...  :) 
 
 NB>> my car turns out to be needing struts replaced (turns out that was
 NB>> the noise, not just a bushing), so I'm not driving anywhere until
 NB>> that gets fixed.

 RH> Do you have another car that Richard drives? It's a good thing that
 RH> you had it checked out--the job will cost a bit but not as much as if
 RH> you continued driving and it caused more damage.
 
Yes, Richard has his own car... He's been driving us to the various
things, including his doctor appointment, groceries, church, and now
this week to my appointments... Still waiting on those special ordered
struts to arrive... ;(  It certainly is going to be an expensive fix...
but when done, at least I'll have my car back...  A previous car threw a
strut and that was the final straw for it... ;)

 NB>> But, did talk a little to my sister in text while we were up at the
 NB>> Pond, and it appears that she continues to improve, since she said
 NB>> nothing to the contrary...

 RH> So it appears she's on the mend.

Yup.
 
 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.
 NB>> Lydia makes her main meals... including her breakfast oatmeal... She'd
 NB>> been mixing up her own supper, Breakfast Essentials in either dark
 NB>> chocolate or in french vanilla mixed with milk...  But that was back
 NB>> when she was mostly just using the quad cane... Now someone mixes that
 NB>> up for her, too...  :)   I suppose she might be able to get back to

 RH> I can imagine she feels frustrated at times, knowing that she used to
 RH> be able to do everything without problems but now has to rely on
 RH> others. The last 6 months or so before Mom went into the nursing home,
 RH> Dad did all of the cooking. Mom would head to the kitchen in late
 RH> afternoon, thinking she had to get supper going. Dad would have to
 RH> intercept her and get her back to her chair but the habit of so many
 RH> years was hard to break.

I dunno...  She didn't seem to be all that upset by not having to make
meals any more...  Of course, the situation was a little different than
your mom's....  Mommy and Daddy went down to live with Lydia when it was
just getting too much for Mommy to deal with Daddy's Parkinsons... Until
the apartment was built onto the house for them, they were just staying
in a bedroom on the first floor there, so she got used to be cooked
for...  :)   Plus, it always had been a joint effort in our house... and
when all the kids had left home, Daddy was as much a cook as Mommy was
until he was having his problems... 

 NB>> that... have the walker to the side while she stands at the counter to
 NB>> mix it up, put the glass of "shake" and the small plate of graham
 NB>> crackers on the seat of the walker and wheel the four, five feet to
 NB>> the table, remove the glass and plate to the table, and then sit down
 NB>> at the table..  ;)  But that assumes using the walker mostly for
 NB>> occasional
 NB>> stability and insurance rather than depending on it to keep one up...

 RH> It's possible to do, but would depend on how confident she feels about
 RH> doing so. I would think the main concern there would be making sure
 RH> the glass was steady enough on the walker seat so it wouldn't spill.

She'd been leaving the cane behind to carry the glass to the table, back
before the surgeries this spring...  not all that wise an idea even
then...  :)

 RH> Dad's walker doesn't have a seat; he has a carrier bag on it
 RH> (originally made for Mom) for small items. I need to make another one,
 RH> somewhat modified, to fit this walker, so that he'll have a back up.

That's a worthy project...  :)   Mommy actually has two different
walkers, one a rolling walker with a seat, and the other the kind with
just the frame and wheels just on the front...  When she's steady enough
on the latter, I imagine she'll graduate back to the rolling walker...

ttyl         neb

... It is very much in your face food, in a good way.

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