Friday, Mar 20th, 2020……
If you are
new to this blog, you will see that I post every 3-4 days or so.
Lydia is
doing well at home, adjusting to a routine again. They have her going to
dialysis in the Albany facility. But her time today was 7:00am so that will
take some getting used to. Hopefully, it will change. Sis stayed the night so
we could be sure to get up and going. We got her into the wheelchair and out to
the car. I know I will now have to begin plans on building a wheelchair ramp
for the front porch. We got her there with no issues and they had her fill out all
of the necessary first-timer forms. They said to come back around 11:00am. We
left and got Starbucks and came back to Lebanon to rest and get chores done. On
the way, I stopped at the Lebanon sister facility and introduced myself and
made sure that she was on ‘the list’ to get transferred there if/when a chair
opens up. They already had her name in
the system and they were really nice there and when we said she could come at whatever
time opening is available, they said she just got moved up the list as others
want specific times and days.
When we
went back to pick Lydia up, they were a little behind schedule so we had to
wait a bit. She said it was a nice
facility and she can rest or read or watch tv and it’s nice and quiet. BUT she
is still on the early-bird schedule! She has to be there by 6:45am on Mondays,
Wednesdays, and Fridays. It’s only 18.1
miles door to door and it’s an easy 20-min. drive, but the one here in town is
only about 4 miles from us.
Once we
got her home and tucked in bed to rest for the day, I fed her lunch and Penny
went home, and then I rested a bit myself. I still need to get to the store for
every day groceries but we are ok for now. I have asked her to make a list of
anything she wants me to get.
Saturday, Mar 21st, 2020…… Today was an easy day for her. She got to sleep late
and rest for the day. I have a list of exercises for her to do but all I can do
is remind her that we need to keep them up. She does them from her bed or
chair. We have a porta potty next to the bed and that has worked out well for
us in the night, even though she needs my help to maneuver into it and then to
clean up after her. But no worries.
Since we
are still in the midst of a nice dry sunny period, I was able to get the mower
out and I got the whole lawn mowed in a few hours. Kirk has the other mower and
was using it today so I did everything here by myself. Sis came by to help but,
with only one mower, I chose to have her stick around by Lydia and I just kept
mowing. Tomorrow I will pick up the grass and she can help bag it. After I came in and rested, I took off and got
us Jack in the Box hamburgers for dinner and later, I threw some clothes in the
laundry and we hung around watching tv until bedtime. Lydia has some catching
up to do on all of her taped shows!
Sunday, Mar 22nd, 2020……
After taking Rylee out for our walk, I checked out the wet grass for
later. With the forecast for sunny skies today, I guessed that the sun will dry
everything out enough by 1:00pm so I asked my sister to come by then. It only
takes a few minutes to ‘rake’ up the grass with the catcher I have for the
tractor.
I raked
and Sis bagged and we got everything done and put away before 1:45pm. Lydia was
doing well and was spending the day in her office watching tv in there. I fixed
us some Banquet chicken pot pies for dinner. Lesson learned. Yuck! I
will stick to Marie Callender’s from now on!
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