Day 287
Tuesday, March
4, 2014
Physical:
This was a
very strange day. It started “off”, when
I had to wake DH to take an early pill.
Then he was wakeful off and on; but I didn’t get him up since I was
waiting for the CAN (delayed because of the weather). After she left he did settle down;, and went
back to sleep. At one point he woke a
bit, and I took him his protein drink and pills. Then he went back to sleep. In the end, he stayed in bed all day, and
slept the majority of it. At one wakeful
spell I took him a sandwich. He ate
about 2 bites of it (and that took half an hour), then tried to put it on a table. He missed and it went on the floor. Laater I
fixed a nice (nicer than “usual”!) supper, oven fried chicken and salad. He ate about half a piece of chicken. He did drink another glass of the protein
drink with his evening pills.
He was
mostly awake for his evening TV shows.
Since he’d slept so much, I wasn’t sure if he’d want to watch something
else; but he didn’t, and went to sleep.
He’s been
wakeful early this morning. After he
gets bathed, I’m hoing he’ll be relaxed and sleep more .. I know all too well
if I get him up too early, it just makes him have a bad day.
People:
The CAN came
around 10:30 or so.
Emotions:
I assume a
combination of built up stress, the weather, and a lot of accumulated tired
(from moving furniture) hit me all at once.
I was weepy all day long, and couldn’t pinpoint a specific reason. The facts that DH won’t eat and sleeps so
much make me sad. His dementia upsets
me, because I know he can’t helpit but it frustrates me something awful. It’s hard to “play along” when he keeps
asking things that don’t make sense; or he doesn’t like my answers. (i.e., “who’s house is this?” my answer: “we
live here”; he gets annoyed occasionally angry, because he “knows” that’s not
true).
His room
looks nice, though I’d still like to get a bit more of the random “junk”
out. The rest of the house looks
OK. It would be better if I had any way
of getting rid of the donations .. they just pile up, and no one takes them
off, and nothing is open on Sunday to take things to. I hate to just throw things in the trash that
are perfectly good; but that’s what may end up happening.
Hopefully
today I’ll do some general cleaning; but it’s cloudy, chilly, rainy, so not
looking good. And besides, no one really
cares. I’ve had people come to the house
and tell me “it doesn’t matter” (referring to whether I thought it was clean or
not) .. well, it matters to me; but I’m getting to the point where it doesn’t. (and those are the people who go and tell
someone else how nasty my house was and why don’t I keep it cleaner since I am
home all the time with nothing else to do).
Ow (Wednesday
morning) CAN has come and gone, so we’ll see what today holds. DH is still sleepy, but coughing a lot. I don’t know if he’ll go on back to sleep or
not.
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