Mom well, slowly recovering strength.

Other members of the Abbey side of the family have much worse issues right now.

• Uncle Bob Abbey has a MRSA infection on his toe.  If it does not heal, worst case the doctors might amputate.
• Aunt Vera Crane is recovering from her troubles, but still in some pain it sounds like.
• Landon, Aunt Vera's grandson, is out of the hospital with his collapsed lung, still recovering. 

Mom is OK.
She switched rooms on Thursday, the 14th.  Hopefully she will move again soon.
The test results of her urinary tract infection status should come back Monday.  Hopefully it gives her the all clear to no longer be isolated.  Then she can leave her room for activities, group walking exercises, meals, etc.

She seems easily tired.


She said her hands were a little uncomfortable when she has tried knitting.

She is also uncomfortable sitting, she thinks due to her infection.

Mom does not think she could handle going up the stairs to upstairs in the home.  At least not for a while.

Mom is eating well, but still not solids.  Dad is slightly frustrated that she has not been doing her throat exercises to get better.  When I showed Mom the paper listing her throat exercises, it seemed like a new item to her.
That and a couple other things make me wonder if her short term memory is poor.  It is hard to do exercises that you do not remember.
She asked the exercise paper be left where it would be very obvious to her, so perhaps that will help.

Mom's blood pressure has been over 200, and her blood sugar is high.
Being stuck in bed most of the time probably has not helped those.
She is supposed to sit as much as she can in a chair during the day now.

Her weight a week ago was 10 pounds less than she was normally earlier in the year.  Today she was at now 6 pounds more, or 4 pounds short, so she is doing well in that respect.

I praise God for the recovery.  Next steps are continued rehab and rearranging the house for her return.