January 13, 2010

I know you all would like to hear only good things but the reality of it is she is going to have good and bad days and today was definitely a bad. They again had just finished physical therapy when I went to see her and so they had her sitting in her wheelchair in a common area. She did not know me when I walked up and when she could tell she should know me she said I was Norma. She also was very put out with me wheeling her around and kept sighing heavily. She would make hateful comments with anything I would say....some made sense and some didn't. She also would roll her eyes at the nurses and at one point said, "what is her deal"? I told her they are trying to help you and she said, "I don't think they are". Then said to another nurse, "so are you the one who was so adamantly trying to get Johnny to come over"? I reassured her that she wasn't. We ate our lunch and she did eat a GREAT lunch.
Then after I got her back into the bed she looks at me and says, "So I noticed you have not been coughing lately and I told Grandma that". I asked her who she thought I was and she very confidently said, "Terri". Later she was talking and and when I asked her what she said she tells me, "I wasn't talking to YOU....just to Grandma".

So she seems to be a bit confused/paranoid and doing this with Johnny this evening too. She also didn't want to eat much of a dinner. sigh. We are just chalking this up to a bad day but are gonna go ahead and speak to her Dr and the psych Dr up there tomorrow to relay this and make them aware.