Mr Dancy Udate Friday

Upon arrival Mr Dancy was awake. He began his day with a shower along with other morning care. He ate breakfast and then dosed off a little, i tried to see if he would play with the puzzle today and he played very little did not appear to be interested. Later on we went for a walk and afterwards we sat outside at the patio and he fell asleep he told me he was tired from the walk. Later on i brought the ball outside for him to do exercises with his arms and we then played catch until he became tired. We went inside and he ate his lunch and looked through his navy book and then prepared to leave for his sons house. He had wonderful day.

Mr Dancy Update Thursday

Mr Dancy was awake when i arrived. He began his daily routine of showering etc. He then ate a nice breakfast and dosed off afterwards. I attempted to get him involved with working on a puzzle, he just did not seem to be interested. We then went outside for his morning walk and then sit outside at the table. He dosed again i then offered him the card game and participated in that one. Lately he seems to be more interested in the card games. He then ate lunch and dosed a little and began conversation with me. Later i was able to get him to participate in the range of motion exercises today using the ball to exercise both arms and legs and he did a good job no complaints today pretty alert and not to sleepy. I would say he had a wonderful day.

Phone Call with Dad

I set up a time to call when it is convenient for Dad (about 10 am Pacific Time). After Dad got on the phone he seemed very cheerful. He asked me how Jennie was doing. I said she was out riding her horse, along with Faye, "little Faye", [to make sure he knew it wasn't his sister].

I said I was doing well, that it was raining outside, so I was hoping that all the azalea bushes that had been pruned to the ground would start to "leaf" again. Dad said he "would follow me". I said I used to follow him!

He thanked me for cheering him up. I said I hope he would have a little "spring in his step" now, then realized that maybe his knee might be too sore for that, so then I said that well "you could twirl your finger around in the air" Ha Ha.

Then I said do you want to hang up first or second. He said yes, then started to making chewing noises [maybe eating]. Well, I said I don't want to hang up first. So I waited a couple of minutes, then said I really have to hang up now, I have to do my yoga exercises. Then I finally did hang up the phone!

It was nice to talk to Dad.

What did I do to deserve such a nice Dad!

Mr Dancy Update Wednesday

Mr Dancy was awake when i arrived today. He talked a lot this morning about his daughters Jenny and Justin calling them by name on several occassions during his conversation about them handling his financial affairs even as he preparing for his shower and afterwards. He then later ate his breakfast and while eating he was still talking about going to the bank to get his accounts his order. Later on he fell asleep at the table so i suggested he go for a walk to get fresh air and he responded. Upon entering the house he fell asleep in the chair and i really had a difficult time afterwards getting to do anything else such as go the the bathroom or eat lunch, i had to eventually get barbs asssistance to get him up and moving. I think maybe he did not rest very well last night he appeared to be extremely tired. After he ate his lunch he fell asleep again, i once again had a hard time getting him to get up and go to the restroom. Finally he did get up and afterwards he went back to sleep again. He had a pretty good day.

Mr Dancy Update Tuesday

Mr Dancy was awake when i arrived this morning. He started talking immediately as i entered the room and continued for a while. Afterwards, he got up to shower and continued with his morning routine. He then ate breakfast and then he began to participate in a card game for a while and then talked a little. He then went outside for his morning walk and afterwards he decided to sit outside on the patio and stayed out there for a long time not wanting to leave he said that he was enjoying the view of the ocean and ate lunch there. After his lunch he began talking again and then participated in a puzzle and afterwards the later played catch with the ball until he became tired. He was very alert and awake today i do not remember him even dosing today so he must have rested well last night. He did not want to go on the afternoon walk he complained twice today about his legs bothering him when he walks, not really sure of what is going on. I would say he had another great day.

Mr Dancy Update Monday

Mr Dancy was asleep upon arrival. He did not want to get up this morning i waited a little and tried again and he responded. He appeared to be very tired today and sleepy maybe he did not rest to good last night. He showered and ate breakfast and afterwards dosed off. I attempted to get him involved with some morning activities but he just was not interested this morning or afternoon. He did however go on both morning and afternoon walks. He has been moving around much slower lately every now and then he may move a little faster. If he continues to move at this pace he will have to leave extra early for his doctors appointments or use the wheelchair because there is a lot of walking that takes place with his doctors appts even with the handicapped sticker most of the time the handicap parking spots are full. he also has been complaining how difficult if is for him to move around for him i have been continuing with his legs exercise which usually helps him to move around better but so far i have not noticed a change nothing to be alarmed about i just thought i would just mention that. I would say his day went well.

Mr Dancy Update Saturday

Mr Dancy was sitting upright on the floor when i arrived this morning. I assumed he got and began to walk and perhaps lost his balance and fell on the floor, he did not appear to be in pain or hurt he began talking immediately as i walked into the room he was sitting up against the bed on the floor. I asked him what happened but of he was unable to tell me, I then asked liz if she heard any noise or movements and she stated that she heard him yell but only once and since he do that all the time she did not think anything was seriously wrong. She assisted me with getting him off the floor and he began to fight us as we were trying to remove him from the floor and later calm down after realize that we were not trying to harm him. He sat in the chair for a little while and later he started his regular morning routine of care. He moved around great i did not notice any bruising and appear to be fine.
After breakfast he and dylan entertained one another dylan noticed him playing with his game and took some of the pieces and Mr Dancy began to play with dylan for a while and once dylan decided to give him back the pieces to the game he continued playing for maybe 15 or 20 minutes. They entertained each other again until dylan left and then Mr Dancy dosed off a little and later on he went on his morning walk. After his walk he came inside and rested then he ate lunch and i tried to get him involved in another game but he did not seem to have any interest. Later he went outside for his afternoon walk and returned and went into his room and looked through his USS New Jersey book and that was the end of day. He had a wonderful day.

Mr Dancy Update Friday

Mr Dancy was asleep upon arrival. He woke up and showered along with other morning routines. He then had breakfast and afterwards he participated in a puzzle for a short time, dosed off and later played the card game. He then went outside for his morning walk and dosed again and then conversated a little later returning back inside. He ate his lunch and and talked a little and later went to his room for his afternoon range of motion exercises with his arms and legs. After he finished he was tired and rested a little then went for his afternoon walk came back in rested again and later ate his supper and talked afterwards. He saw the garage door open and noticed barbs car and got up from the table and said it was time to go for a ride this was around 7:00pm. I decided to take him for a walk outside, if he still wants to go for a ride i can take him tomorrow. I noticed that he was moving around much faster when we walked tonight he got up from that table very quickly once he saw the car. Other than that i would say that he had a wonderful day.

Mr Dancy Update Thursday

Mr Dancy was awake this morning when i arrived. Upon entering the room he began clapping his hands and saying there she is and was in a very happy mood. He begin talking right away about different things which continued for a little while and said he was ready to get up. He started his day off with his daily routine of care. Later on, he went into the kitchen to eat his breakfast and afterwards he participated in the card game for about 45 minutes to 1 hour. He then went outside for his morning walk and rested outside. Later on, he decided that he wanted to play the card game again this afternoon for about 20 minutes and then he came inside to eat his lunch. After lunch he rested again and then went on his afternoon walk and returned inside and went to his room and looked in his navy book and talked about the USS NorthHampton as he looked through the pages. He was very alert today and conversated a lot today and moved around a little better. Other than that i would say he had a wonderful day.

Mr Dancy Update Wednesday

Mr Dancy was awake upon arrival this morning. He was ready to get up and shower and then he ate his breakfast later he participated in a puzzle for maybe 20 minutes. He dosed off just a little waking up and then went outside for his morning walk and after his walk he participated in another puzzle for about 20 minutes and conversated with me outside. He came inside and ate lunch and dosed then played with the puzzle again and talked very briefly he did not want to get to walk this afternoon he just wanted to sit there at the table. He was not sleepy much today and appeared to have had a pretty good day.

Dad's Phone Call

When the phone rang I saw that it was Barb's number. But the person talking I didn't recognize! Finally I said who is it? I thought it might be Paul! But then I realized it was Dad!

Seems he has changed his voice just slightly! (Or my ears are full of wax.)

Dad seemed very positive and caring as he usually is.

There was a lot of press about how strong Ronald Reagan was, but I daresay that Dad was even stronger. All those years of exercising his body with yard work, etc and mind with puzzles and helping me balance my checkbook have really paid off!

I realize he is getting at the end of his life, but he seems to have something that is helping him cope with whatever life throws at him. I hope I can do the same.

Charles Dancy UpdateTuesday

Mr Dancy was asleep when i arrived this morning. He did not want to get up. After waiting a little he finally and began his activities of daily living by showing etc.. He later went into the kitchen to eat breakfast and then went to sleep at the table. I woke him up and offered him a puzzle to work on and he did participate a little, later he went outside for his morning walk and sat outide and worked just a little bit more on his puzzle. He came inside and ate a small lunch dosed off and again. He later went outside for his evening walk and returned inside, went to his room and did some range of motion exercises on both arms and legs in which he participated very good and later dosed back to sleep after exercising. He still appeared to be very sleepy today. I would say today was a little better than yesterday.

Mr Dancy Update Monday

Mr Dancy was awake upon arrival this morning. He got up and showered along with other morning routines and then ate breakfast. Afterwards he fell asleep at the table appearing to be extremely sleepy today and moved around slowly. I attempted to get him interested in a game but he did not respond due to him being sleepy. Later on, he went outside for his morning walk and sit outside for a long period of time asleep. I attempted to get him to gethim up twice and he did not move. Upon the third attempt he finally responded and then came inside the house and later ate lunch. Maybe tomorrow will be a better day. Other than that the day went fine.

Mr Dancy Update Thursday

Mr Dancy was awake upon arrival. He did not appear to want to get up so i waited a few minutes and he finally responded. He started his day with a shower, ate breakfast and afterwards looked through the newspaper showing more interest in the Bernie Madoff story. Later on he got up and walked alone without the walker again from the kitchen table to the dining room table in the dining room when i left the room to take his clothes into his room and put them away he was seated at the dining table reading the paper there. We then went into his to gather his things to away for the weekend and i told him that we would be going for a ride shortly he appeared to be happy asking when are we leaving. He is more alert today and seem to want to m0ve around more. Today has been a good day for him.

Mr Dancy Update Wednesday

Mr Dancy was sleeping upon arrival. He woke up and showered and ate breakfast and participated a short time in a puzzle and later dosed off and on for a long period time, when waking up from his dosing asking me each time who turn is it to play and wanted to know why i had more parts to the puzzle than he did, also why was it always his turn to play instead of mine. I think he really wanted to play but the sleep continued to come upon him. I asked him a few times to go out for a walk and he asked me what for so i assumed that he was not interested in walking this morning, as a matter of fact, he would not get up from the table he sat there for almost four hours. I figured soon he will get tired of sitting and when that happens he will either get up on his own or you will only have to ask once and he will respond which is exactly what happened after lunch. He got up and went outside for a walk and returned inside and participated in the animal puzzle for one hour until he became tired and conversated the rest of the afternoon. He moved around slowly today other than that he had a great day.

Mr Dancy Update Tuesday

Mr Dancy was asleep when i arrived. He got up later and showered, ate breakfast and then participated in a puzzle and afterwards a chess game totaling about one hour. He continued seated at the table until i went into the laundry room to check on the clothes and then he got up from the table and walked in there alone and begin telling me fold the shirts and sat them on the washer and put all the socks together on the dryer and continued with that for a few minutes and later i asked him to come with me to sit and he did not want to so we went for a short walk outside. Later he came inside and sat down so i brought some laundry to him and asked him to fold them and showed him how to do it and he participated. After he finished i gave him a newspaper to look at while i put the laundry away just in case he decided to move around again. He looked through the paper and later ate lunch and then came into his room and conversated a little and looked through his navel book and told me that was him in the book. I asked him the name and he told me his name. Later on i showed him a family picture and he identified himself again by name as well as his wife and Jennie,kenneth and kathy and that was all he could remember at the time. He was very active today and alert and took a very short dose did not walk this afternoon. He had a great day today.

Charles Dancy Update Monday

Mr Dancy was awake upon entering his room and was ready to get up immediately. He was rested from his trip and moved around very well today. After his shower he ate breakfast and then played a card game for about 45 minutes and later went outside for his morning walk. He then went to his doctors appointment with the dermatologist things went pretty well, she examined him from waist down and discovered two warts. Afterwards we left and returned home and he then had lunch and dosed off very briefly. He was awake the majority of the day and pretty much alert today asking where was everyone at and wanting to know what was going at the doctor in which i explained and he fully co-operated. He had a great day.

CharlesDancy Update Sunday

Mr Dancy was sleeping upon arrival, he later woke up and began with his daily routine of care. Appeared to be very tired from his trip, moving around a little slower today. He ate breakfast and later lunch afterwards he began his day dosing throughout the day not able to participate in any activities today nor going for his walks. He told me he was very tired in which i could tell and therefore he just wanted to rest today which he did, maybe he may be a little more energetic tomorrow, just have to wait and see. Other than that the day went ok

Mr Dancy Update Friday

Mr Dancy was asleep this morning upon arrival. He woke and showered, ate breakfast and participated in a card game outside after his morning walk. He then came inside and rested a little and then later ate his lunch and afterwards dosed off for a while later waking up to go for a afternoon walk. After his walk he came inside and then began to participate in a ball exercise of throwing and catching until he became tired and rested the remainder of the day. He moved around very well today and had a great day.

Mr Dancy Update Thursday

Mr Dancy was awake in bed when i arrived. He started his day with a shower and later on ate breakfast then dosed a little and participated in a puzzle game and went out for his morning walk looked through the USS New Jersey Book. Later he prepared for lunch and after eating he conversated a lot about living in Washington DC and talked a lot about a Aunt Jenny was also able to identify Barbara on the picture in the living room. He did not want to partivcipate in any other activities or walk this afternoon, he just wanted to sit at the table and talk about things of the past especially Aunt Jenny whomever that may be. He moved around pretty well today and was awake more today than sleeping just very talkative a lot this afternoon. Good Day today.