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Skriven 2015-09-11 17:09:37 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 30788 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
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Hi Nancy,

 NB> was when she fell and broke her hip  NB>> during the bowel surgery
 NB> recovery...  :)  On Saturday, Lydia had 9

 RH> Good, time and healing in her own comfort zone have been beneficial.
 RH> She hasn't had to put up with the hospital environment, able to see
 RH> family every day--helps that positive attitude.

 NB> And she's had good therapists coming to the house, and a lot of push
 NB> from family to do the work she needs to do to get better... :)

Family "pushing" counts for a lot--we had to do some with Steve's mom
when she had her knee replacement. It's working quite well now.


 NB>  NB>> pies to bake and a wedding cake to make, frost and decorate for
 NB> a  NB>> Sunday wedding (she does it as a sideline business), so I was
 NB> there  NB>> to keep Mommy company and do the easy stuff so Lydia could
 NB> focus
 NB>  NB>> on the job at hand... :)

 RH> Sounds like Lydia was rather busy. (G) But, you undoubtedly enjoyed
 RH> the time with your mom so it was good you were available.

 NB> One-armed paperhanger she was... (G)  And pies baking need some
 NB> attention, especially at critical points... ;)

One good smell after another.................

 NB>  NB>> And yesterday was Mommy's 86th birthday and we had a family
 NB> party for  NB>> her... Lydia made her spinach and her corn quiches,
 NB> Mary Grace made a  NB>> chicken potpie... and Lydia made a carrot cake
 NB> with cream cheese
 NB>  NB>> frosting at Mommy's request...  :)  It was just MG and husband
 NB> Marty,  NB>> me and Richard, and one of Lydia's girls (Bonnie) along
 NB> with Lydia and  NB>> Mommy of course... Some of the local family were
 NB> traveling back from  NB>> being out of town... others were still out
 NB> of town...

 RH> Sometimes quiet is better than the noise and confusion of a lot of
 RH> people, even if all the people are family.

 NB> True... although I'm sure Mommy wouldn't have minded having a few more
 NB> around... ;)

Most likely, she got used to the "chaos" of having a lot of people
around, especially after you all started getting married and having
babies.

 RH> My mom passed away a couple of weeks before her 86th birthday so your
 RH> mom has reached a milestone my mom never did.

 NB> Ah, but your dad has reached milestones that my dad never did... he
 NB> was a few months short of his 87th birthday... He would have been 94
 NB> this
 NB> year, had he lived... :)

Interesting, the milestones reached or denied.


 NB>  NB>> Sometimes that's just as nice...  ;)  I finally got my car back,
 NB>  NB>> fixed, today...  HURRAY....!!!   Now I can have my freedom
 NB> back...  :)

 RH> Feels good, doesn't it?

 NB> Yup, sure does...  :)

Why am I not surprised? (G)


 RH> Tonight we had left over ribs and German
 RH> potato salad for supper, with some green beans I'd grabbed at the
 RH> farmer's market. Steve had to run out to Lowe's (hardware) before
 RH> supper so I started eating when it was cooked. Had nursery duty tonight
 RH> at church so I was able to get the kitchen cleaned up while Steve ate
 RH> when he returned.

 NB> Sounds like it all worked out smoothly enough...  :)

Quite well--came home, had a snack, put that stuff in the dishwasher and
got it going. It finished the run before bedtime.


 NB>  RH>> That helps. At one time we'd thought that Dad would go first and
 NB> Steve  RH>> & I would take Mom in. God had other plans.
 NB>  NB>> As is often the case...  :)

 RH> And as usual, working for the best.

 NB> Yup... he knows what he's doing...  :)

Even tho we don't, and wish we did.


 RH> Guess every therapist has to make all kinds of judgement calls, as to
 RH> what walker will work best for each person. But, that's probably part
 RH> of their training so,............................

 NB> I'm sure it is... and I've noticed that after a hip operation the
 NB> 2-wheel walkers are ordered, at least until they progress to the point
 NB> where they don't need the extra stability..  One of the people at
 NB> church broke his hip about the same time that Mommy did hers... he's
 NB> back to
 NB> church again, too, but with the same 2-wheel walker as Mommy has,
 NB> instead of the rolling walker he'd been using beforehand...  I
 NB> remember that Daddy also had the more stable sort after his two hip
 NB> breaks, but
 NB> he was using the rolling one later... until he needed to be
 NB> transported by chair instead, when the Parkinsons got worse...

It takes a lot of training tho, one of our nieces got her Doctor of
Physical Therapy last fall at D'Youville College. I think her program
was about 5 years long (but she'd had some schooling that shortened her
process). They learn where to push/poke where it hurts and how to make
the hurt go away. (G)

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Ruth
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