First day of the month = my MUNI pass has expired. Im waffling on buying another. I think they may even give you a couple day grace period in the beginning of the month when it has expired, but regardless, we drove in this morning.
That liquid stevia I bought is ruining my coffee mojo, so we parked next to the rehab unit and walked about a half a mile to a Starbucks. Buck lays down on the sidewalk and waits for me...so cute. Got my normal and a couple bran muffins for us....but even Starbucks wasn't perfectly satisfying.
I walk in and hes close to showing the full monty, and I go to rearrange his robe as hes waking up saying your flashing the world and he hisses shhhhhhh like I'm disturbing the universe...
He's just waking up for the first time apparently? Im not sure how this is possible because I know he takes morning meds with breakfast. He didn't want to eat his muffin but asked me to leave it.
I have finally gained access to his email, so last night I went through and printed out some of the ones I thought were important, and a couple others that were funny. One was from an old high school friend that was one of those viral FW emails, but it was a quiz on things you remember from your childhood that I thought would be fun to do together...things like what was the name of the indian princess on the Howdy Doodie show. That was funny and fun to do with him. Some of the phrases to complete I didnt even have to give the multiple choice answer he just blurted it out.
He needed to get up to use the restroom and wants his wheelchair to get what would be three steps to the bathroom door. I asked him to just stand up instead and I would help him and I really didn't need to help him much at all. He uses my hand for leverage to stand, but walks to the rest room on his own just fine. I kept my hands on him in case he leaned one way or the other but really, he didn't need it.
Im giving him a shave and we are talking, and a new CNA walks in saying Ohhhhhh you're getting a shave and getting cleaned up? So we exchanged niceties, Richard knows her by name and says when did you graduate from school? She replies in the 90s something and I declare I'm feeling old...then I go back to the conversation with Richard...we were talking about Buck and his potty routine...but she thinks I'm still talking to her so that was a funny comedy of miscommunication. Turns out she is from Houston and did her CNA work at TSU.
I cleaned out his drawers of excess mail, photos, notes and stuff ...partly to give him more room for his food stashing (he saves a half a sandwich every day to eat when he pleases and miscl other things) but mostly to find some photos that had been sent so I could bring them back for the photo project thing.
I asked if he had seen any therapists yet today, and he replied no, thank god. He wanted the day off. He says hes getting up and moving around on his own and doing the stationary bike while he watches a little bit of TV. His therapist told me yesterday that he did 10 minutes. This is a big improvement over the first time we did it and he lasted maybe 3 minutes.
I brought him his sneakers so he could be more steady on his feet in his physical therapy. This was a suggestion/request of his therapist, as the Birkenstocks aren't cutting it.
His limit I swear is a a built in alarm - its one hour. Since he was so happy to hear no therapy is likely today, I gave him the rest of the day off and told him we'd put the sneakers on tomorrow and get some exercise in.
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