Survivor Sunday

Today was Survivor Sunday at church. Mom and I planned to go last night. I got up and went to work for a little while and when I got home around 7A, Mom was up and having some pain. She ended up taking a couple of her breakthru meds this morning and moving to my bed before she could get this controlled. I know that I made eggs and french toast this morning and Mom ate, but I can't remember if this was before or after the pain crisis this morning.

Mom moved to the couch. She is having a hard time getting comfortable right now. We did some things at the house this morning and Stan and I ran out for breakfast to spend a couple of minutes together. (Zach stayed w/Mom. At this point, she was sleeping and comfortable).

Around 2:00 PM, the house was crazy. Wendy was coming up today, but when I opened the door, Joanna, one of her friends had stopped by on her way back to Wilmington. It was a really nice surprise for Mom. Wendy got here and then Ed stopped by to drop off something for dinner. Thanks to Mary Ellen and Ed for the wonderful Taco Bake. This has been mainly an ensure and cookies day but we are excited about eating this on Monday. Mom had another pain pill this afternoon. Also during this time, she had some fluids.

Mom visited w/Wendy and we talked about some stuff. We are doing some more moving at my house. The plan is to move Mom in Marissa's room, move Marissa into Zach's room and keep Zach in the play room for now. The plan is to make it look as much like Mom's room at home as possible. Wendy is going to her house to pick up some stuff Tuesday(Mom gave us a list) and we went out and bought a full bed today to give Mom more room (her king bed will not fit in the room. Also, I need to be able to change the sheets here at least every day or so. A full size bed is a compromise which should give Mom enough room but let me do the things we need to do). We have been moving mattresses around trying to find something comfortable for Mom and this ended up being the solution. We have 3 twin beds in our house and they just aren't large enough for Mom to curl up comfortably.

I am going to paint this room the same yellow as Mom's as soon as Wendy brings the curtains (Mom matched the paint to a particular shade on the curtains.) We are going to put the same bedspread and stuff and a picture to start out with. I will put a ceiling fan up Monday.

We haven't made a decision on which hospice we will use yet. Will do in the next couple of days. We have a Dr's appt on Tuesday (This Dr is located around the corner from my house in Fuquay. We need to have a GP/Attending for hospice. This way, if Mom gets a cold, she will have a Dr here that has already seen her and is familiar with her.) and will see if he has any input on which hospice.

Tentatively, our plan is for Wendy to come back to Fuquay on Saturday (4/19) and Mom and I to come back to Greensboro the following weekend (4/25-4/26). We will firm this up more during the week. There is some larger stuff that we need to pick up and some stuff that Mom wants at the house. Please try and come by and see Mom if you are healthy. (No colds or yuckies please.)

I do want to add a couple of things to a wish list for Mom. Just call Wendy and she will get this stuff to Mom if you happen to have it around the house.

1. Ensure Plus Homemade Vanilla in the cans.
2. Full size sheets. [These don't need to match and just need to be soft. I change Mom's bed every other day and having a couple of spare sets of sheets would be really helpful. Don't go buy any but if you have a set that you aren't using, that would be wonderful].

After the post last night, James brought soup and a card for Zach that was really wonderful. Mom tried some of this today for lunch, but cookies won out today. When Mom feels bad, I feed her whatever she wants.

We also cut Mom's fingernails. This was not as hard as I thought it would be. I bite mine, so I had to go get "Nail Stuff". The worse part of this was cutting them short. If you know my Mom, you know that she has always had the most beautiful nails. Cutting them down made me want to cry for a couple of reasons: 1. She let me do it and kept telling me what a good job I was doing 2. I have never seen my Mom's nails this short as long as I can remember.

We have a busy couple of days Monday/Tuesday. I am going to take a couple more days of vacation and I hope when we get Mom in her room, things will settle and I can work some more from home.