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Trip health report
May. 10th, 2024 12:06 amSo my stepfather seems to be in pretty good shape. He's definitely well enough to complain :-)
They are not letting him walk by himself. I made them show me him walking. There's kind of a problem with staff where when you want something, it takes forever. We had been sitting and chatting for a couple of hours and I went and asked if we could walk around the building, and they said oh you mean push the wheelchair, and I said no I meant I want to watch him move his feet, and they had to go find a physical therapist to come help us, which took a while and then the PT complained "he's already had physical therapy today" and I explained that I wasn't there then and I was visiting and I wanted to watch him walk. He's using a walker, but he's been using a walker at home for about a year I think, so that's not really new. He seemed to walk okay, and I tried to get the PT to let me walk with him without the PT around, and while his mouth said yes, he accompanied us back to the room, so I think the real answer was no.
He's having a little short-term memory problem, where we talk about something, and then half an hour later we talk about it again, and it seems new to him. But other times he seems quite normally sharp.
My step brother came over for a few hours in the afternoon, and we chatted and that was fun, and a couple of Clyde's friends also stopped by for 20 minutes on their way to Costco (which is fairly near the rehab).
I had a couple of hours to kill while he took a nap and then had dinner, so I drove up to Paradise to see how the rebuilding is going. It's going to be another 5-10 years before it doesn't look like it's a recovering war zone. There are a lot of new houses, but there are still a lot of vacant lots. The land seems to have recovered; nothing really looks scorched anymore, and all the dead trees of been removed, and new scrub has grown up instead, and it looks fine. It's just when you get into town and see alternating new houses, old houses, vacant lots. Some parts of town look better than others, though I didn't really do a full tour, I just tootled around (in my electric rental car, which is charging downstairs in the hotel parking lot).
Then I went back over and we watched my mother's favorite shows, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. It's clear that Clyde likes Wheel of Fortune, and is wishy-washy about Jeopardy, because he watched during Wheel of Fortune, and chatted with me during Jeopardy.
Tomorrow will be a repeat of today, with the added fun of me going to the DMV at the beginning of the day and picking up a study guide for the drivers test, which you have to take every time you renew your license after you are some age, and Clyde is well beyond said age. So we will see if this short-term memory thing fixes itself, or if he fails the written test in August.
They are not letting him walk by himself. I made them show me him walking. There's kind of a problem with staff where when you want something, it takes forever. We had been sitting and chatting for a couple of hours and I went and asked if we could walk around the building, and they said oh you mean push the wheelchair, and I said no I meant I want to watch him move his feet, and they had to go find a physical therapist to come help us, which took a while and then the PT complained "he's already had physical therapy today" and I explained that I wasn't there then and I was visiting and I wanted to watch him walk. He's using a walker, but he's been using a walker at home for about a year I think, so that's not really new. He seemed to walk okay, and I tried to get the PT to let me walk with him without the PT around, and while his mouth said yes, he accompanied us back to the room, so I think the real answer was no.
He's having a little short-term memory problem, where we talk about something, and then half an hour later we talk about it again, and it seems new to him. But other times he seems quite normally sharp.
My step brother came over for a few hours in the afternoon, and we chatted and that was fun, and a couple of Clyde's friends also stopped by for 20 minutes on their way to Costco (which is fairly near the rehab).
I had a couple of hours to kill while he took a nap and then had dinner, so I drove up to Paradise to see how the rebuilding is going. It's going to be another 5-10 years before it doesn't look like it's a recovering war zone. There are a lot of new houses, but there are still a lot of vacant lots. The land seems to have recovered; nothing really looks scorched anymore, and all the dead trees of been removed, and new scrub has grown up instead, and it looks fine. It's just when you get into town and see alternating new houses, old houses, vacant lots. Some parts of town look better than others, though I didn't really do a full tour, I just tootled around (in my electric rental car, which is charging downstairs in the hotel parking lot).
Then I went back over and we watched my mother's favorite shows, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. It's clear that Clyde likes Wheel of Fortune, and is wishy-washy about Jeopardy, because he watched during Wheel of Fortune, and chatted with me during Jeopardy.
Tomorrow will be a repeat of today, with the added fun of me going to the DMV at the beginning of the day and picking up a study guide for the drivers test, which you have to take every time you renew your license after you are some age, and Clyde is well beyond said age. So we will see if this short-term memory thing fixes itself, or if he fails the written test in August.
