Mom & Me Four Archive

...when I reviewed yesterday's posts against today's early post. First, I took a nap yesterday, which, to me, is, definitely "sleeping a lot", no matter how short the nap. Second, this morning I'm thinking of yesterday as a very busy day. Both are true, because I felt so bad. Weird how that works out. Today actually was busy, without feeling bad and without a nap. Mainly, though, I'm here at the moment to record some miscellanea reminders:

• Dinner tonight, a chicken concoction with all kinds of fresh chopped vegetables, stuffing, lots of chicken breast, cream of chicken soup, chopped green olives, sour cream and lots of freshly ground pepper.
• No bowel movement today, much to my surprise, considering the laxative last night.
• Hydration has been difficult to manage, today. I didn't want to over hydrate her but I also didn't want to under hydrate her and encourage yet another shit rock bowel movement. I'm not sure how I did. All I know is that her feet are pudgy, she looks a little bloated but there's no dry hack, so I'm hoping it's just a hold over from the laxative and she'll lose it tonight. I'm holding off on a decision about furosemide until tomorrow.
• Stats were taken, though, and she's doing fine. Her blood glucose was a little high, but I think it was dinner last night, specifically the french fries, and, you know, it's not completely the french fries, it's the amount of ketchup she uses on her french fries.
• She is officially, as of today, on prescribed 10 mg lisinopril twice a day. I had to call her doctor's office and explain everything but, thank my lucky stars, he continues to trust me with her and okayed the change for her renewal without any problem.
• No trip to Costco today; maybe tomorrow. She's been doing pretty well today, feeling lively, didn't nap for a long time despite sleeping only 10 hours last night. She didn't feel much like moving today, though. I didn't blame her. It was cold and windy outside, even though she never discovered this. The weather was due to the tail of a low swishing through.
• No lunch today. She wasn't hungry for it. I don't worry about it when she refuses lunch. She's at a healthy weight and I can trust her appetite.
• We did another interview. I'll begin editing it tonight after Mom's retires. I'm not sure whether I'm pleased with it. I'll wait to see how much of it I'll be cutting out and what's the quality of what I leave in.
• Mom's still up. She's alert and focused on her evening shows. We've made a date to watch a show about the first Emperor of China on Sunday from 2200 - midnight. During the breaks in her shows she continues to anticipate what it might be about.
• She tried to encourage me to "go to Cornell" this afternoon. More about that later.
• "Even my mom..."; more on this later, as well.

    Later, later, later, later.