Getting Help.....yay!!!

[DianaB]

That's what Glen was dealing with with his mother. She had lost strength and one night she got so bad that he could barely get her in bed. That was when she went to the hospital but IF she would have come home it would have been to a nursing home. People just don't have handles to help move them around and it's difficult.

[Janet]

That's for sure. The PT just called and said she would try and be here close to noon tomorrow. I told Mom and she gave that look and said she didn't feel like doing therapy....lol....I told her to get herself ready and in the mood because she was doing them tomorrow.

[DianaB]

[Janet]

She thinks that just because the time with the therapists is coming to an end that she won't have to do the exercises anymore.....they have left diagrams and instructions for us so she is going to be doing them. I have to be careful with her though.....she is getting weaker and tires easily and I don't want her to overdo it, but she just can't sit and do nothing all day.

She always has an excuse......but I know her tricks really well.....LOLOL

[gja1000]

Gary and my mom are the same way - drives me CRAZY! When either of them are in therapy, they do NOTHING at home. Why is that? I just don't understand when someone tells you that you can get better, or stronger, or have more stamina, or WHATEVER, that they just sit on their butts and do nothing. Do they think the magic fairy is going to wave her wand over them and they will be just fine. Drives me crazy, I tell ya!

Gary did the STUPIDEST thing this week. I don't know if I told you but he got in to bad trouble with a high potassium a few weeks ago because he had leg cramps and wanted bananas for them. He CANNOT have bananas becasue his potassium is too high. If it gets higher than it already is, his heart can stop (they use potassium for lethal injections in the death penalty - when your potassium is too high, your heart stops). He knows this, but he ate a banana every day for four days (unbeknownst to me). 3 different doctors were calling after he had blood work done because his potassium was dangerously high.

So, what does he do the other day while out fishing???? He eats a banana. I was so mad at him, I could have spit. He knows better - just like he knows he should do is PT exercises, or whatever he is supposed to do. He just thinks he knows best or can get away with it. Sometimes I just want to scream!

[Janet]

I don't know why they do it either Gayle and it drives me crazy too. Mom's problem is her potassium gets critically low because of the diuretics (?) and dialysis. The last two times she was in the hospital it was critical. She has to take the pills but has a very hard time with them. She doesn't eat very much anymore and could easily keep it good with diet, but she won't.