New Post for the New Year

We're three days into this new year and blogging here for the rest of you is one thing I want to do more!

Seems like I lost the last two months. Everything just kind of took off after that day when I drove mom in to have her knee replacement surgery..... Well, I'll likely have pictures and writing and a whole lot more of that in days to come. I am working on getting her memorial onto a dvd to send to all of you who weren't able to come.....

Today I just want to write about dad and how great he is doing. Yesterday I heaved him up into the reclining wheelchair we've had but haven't been using the past three months, or longer! It was a case of the hospice nurse telling me we either use it or lose it. So up we went and dad not only did well, he loved it! He sat out in the front room for a while and enjoyed the view then went back to bed.

I didn't tell him but that was a preparatory run for today when we had a plan to work on his toes! I can hear Sally and Mom laughing and asking, "what other impossible task do you have planned?"

Well today I gave dad a little lorazepam at the nurses instructions (it did nothing) to try and manage possible anxiety when they started working on his toes, Ha! Ha! Ha! Then I got him up and soaked his toes for 15 minutes before the gals showed up. I had dad over looking out of the window at the chickens cleaning up under the bird feeder when they arrived.

Well he wasn't happy, accused me of tricking him but with a whole lot of cajoling, force and distraction Stephanie got all ten toes trimmed and ended up with about 1/3 of a cup of trimmed nails on the floor when she was done. Bravo!! I took several pictures of the procedure and will post them when developed. Do you know how long it's been since we first talked about dad needing to have his toes worked on???

Later I took him out to the living room and as the sun was playing hopscotch across the Samish flats and farmland all the way over to Chuckanut he just sat and loved the view for an hour.

Extra special was Jake, Leigh and Ian Sloan surprising us with a visit. They just drove Leigh's sister out and thought they'd drop by for a visit. Ian's a great little kid with a ready laugh. Fun to see dad with yet another one of his great-grandkids.