Aug 22: Seems like Mom had a pretty good day today. Seems like she’s been pretty steady for the last four or five days. I stayed at work until around 1 pm today and came over to Mom’s after that. This morning she had a visit from the priest at St. Peter’s Church. Joe’s friends arrived in Madison from their cross-country road trip and had a nice visit with Mom around lunch time. When I arrived, Mom was napping. But all afternoon, she was doing her old-fashioned napping where she interjects comments into the conversations going on around her during her naps. [It’s been weird to see her sleep so soundly these past weeks that she isn’t aware of what is going on in the room around her. Usually while she’s napping you can ask her a question and get a quick response.]
Mom’s dear childhood friend Mary Read drove up from Chicago for a visit with Mom today. Mary’s daughter is getting married next Saturday, so they had a nice time talking through wedding details and admiring the flower girl’s lovely dress. Mom took a nice, long nap mid-visit, and Mary joined her from the chair nearby. Meanwhile, I did a coarse sort of all the papers on the kitchen counter. Shuffling and organizing papers is one of the things I do best:)
Mom requested a pizza from Roman Candle tonight. She got the saltiest pizza she could find, with feta cheese, carmelized onions, and Kalamata olives. Mom’s been really into salty foods these days, and I think that she and I have eaten nearly a full, big jar of olives in the last several days.
Joe is leaving for college tomorrow afternoon, but I think that’s the extent of the activity she has going on. Her Hospice nurse is coming by on Friday for a weekly check-in. I’m hoping for a few more days as nice as the last ones have been.
That’s the update from me!
~Althea