She has had a hard week overall. The bronchitus/pneumonia is under control and she's improving physically. She has had to skip two ECT treatments though to give her brain a rest. She has been really confused most of the week, not even able to stay in the moment when I've been visiting but rather lost and clouded in her thinking.
She's tried to walk out of the ward a couple times because she thinks its time for her shift to be over and for her to go home. Since she has worked in hospitals for many years and is used to the nursing station environment and the scrubs that she must wear to id her as a patient, she just gets to thinking that she works ther too. And when her shift is over, she wants to go home.
In other things she has been confused too. Her brain is seemingly bouncing around, trying to grasp onto something, anything that makes sense, that she can hold onto. But as soon as she has a thought firmly fixed, 4 minutes later its gone and we start all over again trying to anchor her thoughts.
The behaviour is typical of the ECT and exaggerateed by the antibiotics that she was getting for the bronchitus. Hopefully this week coming will be better for her.
As for my bug that kept me on the recliner all day Saturday- its not gone but I've beat it into submission with some extra sleep and that Sav-On brand NyQuil. I'm going to have a shower and another dose in just a couple minutes...
Abigail our aged dalmation seems to be improving from her toe amputation surgery last Friday as well. You might remember that she had surgery to fix a broken toenail a month ago, it didn't work and so she had to have one entire toe removed. She's been mighty miserable in pain and she has a huge bandage covering her foot that makes it hard for her to get around. But tonight she even managed up the stairs while I made dinner and back down again on her own. I keep feeding her the pain meds and she doesn't seem to mind taking them.
so that's it then. Bed time right after a shower. And 90 miles to a gallon of gas; isn't that cool?
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