Weekend Update

Dad had a great time on the ride this past Friday.   Now that the weather is better, they will take scenic bus rides every Friday afternoon.   When I talked to him Saturday, he did remember that he had seen a bunch of horses and thought that was pretty neat.   They took them to a ranch up by Morgan.   This wore him out thought, he could barely keep his eyes open for dinner Friday evening, but he did have fun.

Saturday was a good day.   Spent some time with dad before our support group on Saturday afternoon. After the group, I took him for a walk around the grounds, and he clipped right along.   Liked seeing the cars in the parking lot, and he had a good time.   He did say he wanted to go for a ride, and I told him when I visited the next time, I would take him.  Sally feels like this will be fine, as long as we don't take him home.   The picture below is after we came back from his walk and he was resting.

Yesterday, Sunday, Chancellor called mom about 2:00 and dad had fallen.   She went down there and he was in his room with his arm wrapped in gauze.   She spent some time with him, then went home, but returned for dinner.    When she walked in, he was eating dinner sitting in a wheelchair.   I called James, the tech assignment to dad until 10 last night.   They think dad was either reaching for something on the table and fell out of the chair, or stood up and tripped over his feet.   He had scraped his arm on the carpet - nothing serious, but because his skin is so think, they put some neosporin on it and wrapped it.    Had a little bump on the back of his head.   They checked his vitals, eyes weren't dialated, blood pressure was fine.    James said he hadn't been on the floor very long, as they had just seen him walk back to his room.  He figures about 10 to 15 minutes, at the most.   Asked him about the wheelchair.   He said when he went to get dad for dinner, dad didn't want to walk.   He was very wobbly, but not like a head injury wobbly, like he sometimes gets.   They brought him to dinner in a wheelchair as a safely measure.  After dinner, he was up walking around with no problem.  Said the would be checking him every hour during the night, to make sure he didn't have any injuries.  Something funny - when mom first walked in, dad had someone else's pants on, and a woman's sweater around his shoulders.  When she returned, he was in his own clothes.   We are thinking that dad probably took these from a stack of clothes that is sitting on the chair outside his room.  The aides wouldn't have done this, as they all know where dad's clothes are, and laundry had just been done Friday night - there were plenty of clean clothes.  Dad probably just grabbed them from the stack.

Told mom to call me during the night if she received a call, or if she called down there and things had turned south.  No call, so I am assuming dad had a good night.

Note - Naolia and Skipper are the same.   Apparently, Naolia has never been married and in the heyday of the free love era, spent some time in a nudist colony in San Francisco.   Sally said she has been known to strip off everything, even recently.   Wanted us to be aware.  They try to keep clothes on her, but obviously aren't able to watch her every second of the day.  It all makes sense now!
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2:00 pm
Dad had a good night, no developments from his fall yesterday.  Doing well.   They couldn't get him to eat breakfast this morning, but he did eat lunch.    In a good mood, no concerns or problems.  Whew!