A good day for Dads
Apr. 21st, 2015 06:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amberdreamsJust got back from seeing Dad and he was wide awake and almost as coherent as he ever is today! They were not wrong when they said this will be a long road with lots of ups and downs. He got words muddled and couldn't recall some at all, but he does that quite a lot normally so it felt like progress LOL!
He has been reading the papers and magazines we brought him, because he was very keen to tell me something he'd read in the Sunday paper - we were somewhat puzzled, because he kept saying it was about Romans and scissors - turns out when we gave him the paper so he could find the actual article, it was the news story about the Navy chaps who've been done for sexual assault, and the reason he thought I'd be interested was because they were ice hockey players. So we worked that one out in the end.
He managed to say hello and a few words to his sister Margaret on the phone today, when yesterday he'd barely whispered a mumble, so she was happy. Told him he was a big fraud, in hospital on false pretenses which made him laugh.
Using the phone then confused him, because he was asking us if we came to the hospital by phone instead of by bus! I admit, I was laughing quite a lot when the care of the elderly doctor came over and started asking him some of those questions that are supposed to test his state of mind - she asked him to tell her who me and Mum were. He was definite about Mum - that's my wife! Which was fine but then she asked who I was, and apparently I'm his wife too.Then he said no, no, but he couldn't think what the word was for daughter. It's probably just as well the doc didn't ask him our names, because he always has trouble with those!
Using the phone then confused him, because he was asking us if we came to the hospital by phone instead of by bus! I admit, I was laughing quite a lot when the care of the elderly doctor came over and started asking him some of those questions that are supposed to test his state of mind - she asked him to tell her who me and Mum were. He was definite about Mum - that's my wife! Which was fine but then she asked who I was, and apparently I'm his wife too.Then he said no, no, but he couldn't think what the word was for daughter. It's probably just as well the doc didn't ask him our names, because he always has trouble with those!
I read the hospital notes and it looks like the thing about the Parkinsons was on the first information gathering on Saturday - it was listed alongside his mastoid and gall stones operations. So it seems likely the paramedics or whoever talked to Mum when he was admitted on Saturday got their wires crossed, or Mum misheard something and said yes when she should have said no. This is the trouble when you have two parents who are deaf!
I've got his GP ringing me tonight so I'll talk to her about it and she can follow it up if necessary. Ha! Edited to say, the GP rang early and Mum answered without telling me, and totally forgot to mention the Parkinsons to her, which was the whole reason for ringing the GP in the first place. Lord.
The hospital doctor we talked to today (who I think said her name was Sunita - I really should write these names down) briefly tested his hand, wrist and arm movements and their strength, and the same with his legs, and said it didn't seem like he had Parkinsons, though the fact that he often loses control when he's walking and gets faster and faster until he falls over, is something that happens with Parkinsons.
I've got his GP ringing me tonight so I'll talk to her about it and she can follow it up if necessary. Ha! Edited to say, the GP rang early and Mum answered without telling me, and totally forgot to mention the Parkinsons to her, which was the whole reason for ringing the GP in the first place. Lord.
The hospital doctor we talked to today (who I think said her name was Sunita - I really should write these names down) briefly tested his hand, wrist and arm movements and their strength, and the same with his legs, and said it didn't seem like he had Parkinsons, though the fact that he often loses control when he's walking and gets faster and faster until he falls over, is something that happens with Parkinsons.
He's been moved upstairs to the Gastro ward simply because they had a bed free and they needed his bed in the surgical assessment ward. He's waiting for a bed downstairs in the Rehab care for the elderly ward, but that might not happen for a couple more days. Whatever happens he will be in hospital a while yet, but I'd say today was a good day. So I feel a bit better about going home tomorrow.
And here's Mum with a new friend in one of Shrewsbury's hippie clothes shops.
And here's Mum with a new friend in one of Shrewsbury's hippie clothes shops.