Friday, January 08, 2010
Mr Dancy Update Friday
Upon arrival Mr Dancy was awake and began conversating immediately continued talking while getting his morning care done. He went to the kitchen for breakfast after he was seated, i went to his gather his clothes to wash them and upon returning to kitchen i saw him up walking around without his walker. He walked to the other dining room table i tried assisting him back to the kitchen table and he did not want to sit down continued with talking finally i was able to get him seated after about 5 min. I went into the kitchen to fix his breakfast and while washing my habnds he got up again and began to walk so barb and i had to get him seated again. I returned to kitchen to make his food and he got up again so i had him sit in the chair facing me so he could see me and that worked a little and he got up again right as i finished. He started eating breakfast and got up twice again so i just took him outside for a long walk until he became tired. He returned insdie and rested for about 20 min and then tried to get up again and i began exercises with him with the ball until he became tired again. He rested for about 30 mins and tried getting up again and again but was unable to because he was too tired. He went to sleep and slept for about 2 hours and then i had a hard time getting him up for lunch. Finally after a few tries he responded and was moving a little slower still tired but ate lunch and participated in a card game for maybe 15 mins and did not want to go on another walk. He went to his room and rested the remainder of the day. He also did his leg exercises before getting this morning. He had a very interesting day.
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Note that Dad got up at 3:30am last night...by the time I was downstairs, he had gotten to the end of the hall outside Ryland's door (no walker...note that his walking/balance is much better than earlier in the week.) I helped him back down the hall and at the opening out to the living room he resisted heading towards his bedroom, and seemed to want to walk out to the living room. I was trying to get him to walk to the bedroom and he kept saying he couldn't do it. Let him sit right there on piano bench, then got his walker and got him back to bed (after changing the wet diaper). No more wake-ups till Lois arrived.
Realized later that I think Dad had walked into Dylan's room, perhaps sitting on the bed...a little side stool I have next to Dylan's bed that has books on it had been moved and the books were tousled. Earlier in the week when he was in Dylan's room he kept reaching for those books and looking at them. Fortunately, Dylan sleeps pretty far over from the edge of the bed, so if Dad sat on the bed, I don't think he hurt Dylan, though a few minutes after I got Dad to bed, Dylan had woken, though with a slight readjustment, he went right back to bed.
Dad likes being around Dylan!
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