Drew went with me. I met him and Dad at Sunrise at 1:00. Drew had brought along wheelchair (good call). Dad had just woken up from a nap and was very groggy. He kept saying he felt weak. At one point when we were walking out he stopped in the hall and held onto the rail. He also talked about being hungry. He said he missed breakfast and lunch. Drew and I think he probably did have breakfast but might have missed lunch. Anyway, he was pretty out of it.
Drew got the wheelchair out of his truck and put it in my car and we drove to Loma Linda. We had a bit of a wait before they were ready to see Dad so I ran upstairs to the canteen and grabbed him a hot dog and a diet Coke. After he ate he was much brighter.
We had a very good meeting with Dr. Griffin. Drew filled her in on all the details of the stroke incident. While he was talking she looked over the printouts of the Phoenix medical records. Dad kept asking about the stroke and being in rehab. He didn't remember most of what has happened in the last three weeks. Drew kept telling him that the stroke took away a lot of his memory but his brain was healing and his memory should return. Drew's been telling him this all along and Dad seems comforted by it. Dr. Griffin caught on and started telling him the same thing. She told him it would take one to three months for him to recover. She feels he's on the right medications and all she added was a prescription for a mild sedative for those nights when he's agitated and can't sleep.
Dad really did well. He never once got cocky and he cooperated as well as he could. He was very pleasant to be with. It's such a relief to know that he can be like this. Easier on us and so much better for him.
Work was enjoyable today. Dr.D was interviewing people for the Director of Food Services position at RCC. The meetings went way long so I ended up chatting with the last interviewee for about 45 minutes. Nice guy. His name was Hezekiah.
Last night Jeff and Bill came over for uke practice. It was more productive than our first meeting although it took us a while to get started. We did a lot of computer work, looking up songs and printing them out. We mainly worked on adding back up vocals to Tweedlee Dee. It's sounding great so far.
Not a bad day.
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Huzzah, for: Not a bad day!
I'm hoping to rack up a bunch of 'em.
This morning the washing machine lost its mind. All it wants to do is spin, spin, spin. Grrrr.... Now I have to call an appliance repair person. Jim could have fixed it. He did once before when we had a power surge that blew out its chip. Ah well, that's life.
Huzzah! The washing machine wasn't broken, just confused. After work I went to storage and got out all the boxes of my files. I came home and read the owner's manual for my washer. It said to reset the electronics just unplug it for 2 minutes. Wheeee! It worked!!! WHEEEE!!!
Plus, I now have my files.
Wow, I've had three good days in a row. Feeling just plain happy today.
Yehaw! The washer musta gotten too much juice one day and was drunk on extra power.
Coming down has never been so easy, eh?
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