Father's Day Yard Work

Father's Day Yard work

I love doing the Holiday Yard Work.  It is so much fun to see how I recreate the ideas that I have drawn out on paper.  It relieves stress when I do the ban saw, sander, and then paint it.  I come up with different designs for each holiday.   

 

Update on Mama (part 13)

 

Update on Mama

4-28-21

She is doing awesome.  She has been up help us pick up stuff around the house, going out to check the mail, cooking supper & other things.  She us also relaxing in her chair.  She loves her coloring books.  She also has started a new hobby.  She is making welcome signs, by painting them & decorating them.    She also has been selling them.

Her nurses and Physical therapy doctor is seeming improvements.  And she was so happy yesterday.  Her nurse came in & dad showed her the doctors orders to have her PICC line removed.  She has had that line in since the week of Feb 14.  She was so happy to have it out.  The nurse told her that the PICC line was 41cm long.  

Many of you guys know that mom has a motorized wheelchair.  She has had it for 14 to 15 years.  Now her nurses are trying their best to get her a new wheelchair.  Please say a prayer that she gets it. 

Please say a prayer for Dad.  He has to go tomorrow & see what he has to do for his cataract in his right eye. He will be out of work for the rest of year.  Which stink?😞😞😥😥  If & when he has his surgery.  Everything will be put on me, driving wise.

Please continue to pray for me & my family.

Thank you! Love you, guys!❤❤

Update on Mama (part 12)

 

4-6-21

IT'S OFFICIAL!!! SHE'S HOME!  Momma came home today. She is currently resting in her chair.  She still has to take an antibiotic until she sees her foot doctor next week.

Please continue to pray for us, as we are getting back in the routine.

  

Update on Mama (part 11)

 

4-2-21

Happy Easter to everyone!   Mama is going insane.  She wants to come home so bad.  She has moved down to a step down room.  She is able to go to the dining room to the window to talk to us.  She would Thank everyone for their cards and packages.  She is still taking antibiotics.  Her doctor & nurses are very pleased with the way her foot is progressing. 

Update on Dad

Dad is doing better than what he was.  He is still taking antibiotics.  

Thank you for the continued prayers.

Update on Mama (part 10)

 

Update on Mama (Part 10)

3-25-21

Mommy is doing much.  She is getting some what back to her old self.  She has been helping the nurses to transfer from bed to the wheelchair and back again.  She has been standing up on her good leg with the walker.  She has beencalling up and checking up on us.  

She had been asking for some loving and get well cards.  She informed Dad today that she has gotten at least 40 get well cards.  Which I think has been her mind.  She also didn't realize that she would be getting that many or more.  For the ones of you, who have already sent cards to her, Thank you so much!

She has a doctor's appointment (wellness check up) on Friday to go an see the surgeon, who did her surgery.  She has a total of 20 staples in the bottom of her foot.  This past weekend, she called me and told that she was getting pretty.  I asked her how, she said she was getting her nails painted pink and purple.  Which mom is not a girly girl.  So she must be having fun.  Oh, an one other thing.  Mom shaved her head.  She has not hair.  She was getting tired of dealing with the hair.  So, she shaved it off.  She is also wearing cancer beanie hats.  SHE DOES NOT HAVE CANCER.    She didn't want to put up with it and her foot.

Dealing with Family Members who has had a Stroke

 

    

Dealing with a Family Member who has had a Stroke

    Many People have known someone close to them - as a loved one or a friend, who had suffered from a stroke.  As you guys know, some strokes can be very deadly & can kill someone.  Then you have the strokes that show signs/ paralysis.  Then you have the strokes that shows NOTHING!!!  You don't even know that you have had one until you have an MRI / CAT Scan done.  Then the doctors share the news with you.

    That is what happen with Heather and my mom.  None of us knew what was going on. Neither one had signs/ symptoms or paralysis.  So, we didn't know.  Heather had her stroke in May 2020.  She kept saying her head hurt, that's all was said.  She also kept asking where she was.  Which didn't throw up a red flag.  Then she kept acting out.  However, we didn't think anything about it.  It got harder and harder for her to explain the way she was feeling.

    So, she went to ARMC to find out what was going on.  That is where she did the MRI and found out she had a stroke (ischemic) on the right side of her brain.  Which the part of her brain where she had her stroke had died.  Then while in the hospital, she had several mini strokes.  She sometimes has trouble remembering things.  When she got back home, its day and night the way she acts.  One moment she acts like a young child and then at a flip of the switch, she is to somewhat normal.  This has been going on almost a year.  Its going to be a long recovery process for her to be able to try to get back to normal, if that happens.

    Now with Mama, it's somewhat different.  Mom had no signs/ symptoms or paralysis to show that she had a stroke.  However she went in for other reasons.  They did an MRI to see was causing her to talk out of mind.  That was when they found out that she did have a stroke.  She also was having an internal reaction to an antibiotic that was being give through a PICC Line ( that goes directly into the heart).  The antibiotic was slowly killing her and shutting everything down.  She had trouble explaining what she wanted us to do or help her with.

    Its going to be a long recovery for Mom, she has to do Physical & Occupational Therapy for her foot and then for her stroke.  As of right now, while in rehab - she shows no signs of any paralysis.  Which is great.  Mom is trying her best to start moving around, however she has to stay off her foot 4 to 6 weeks.  She loves her nurses.  She has a checkup with her foot doctor on Friday.   She is even getting pampered.  She got her nails painted.  However there is one big thing that I haven't mentioned is that she has shaved her head.  The reason she did it was she didn't have to deal with that and her foot, too. 

    I just had to write something about this.  I have been looking into this lately and seen that "the researchers found that among mothers who had a stroke, the risk for a stroke was highest among their daughters."   Which I have found to be very interesting.  Some kinds of strokes have a genetic component that can be tested.  It can be common for many people in your family to have strokes, because of the increase stroke risk.  I also didn't know that strokes can be inherited.  You learn something new everyday.  

Please take care of yourself. Take it easy.

As I found information that I find is very useful and interesting.  I will continue to post it.  Thank you for allowing me to vent and educate you at the same time.

Update on Momma (Part 9)

 3-17-21

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!  I have been keeping everyone up to date about Mom's Health Conditions.  She is currently in rehab at Peak Resources in Graham.  She will be there for 4 to 6 weeks.  She can't put no pressure on her left foot at all.  So all she can do is watch TV, Listen to Music, Watch cars go by her window and do some coloring.  Which I know her Physical & Occupational Therapists will be very happy.  As I said above she has a window in her room.  Which means we can visit her, through a window.  

If you would like her address and room number, please message me,  She would love to receive some cards and messages.  She also love encouraging messages and surprises.

Please continue to pray for her and my family.

Thank you all very much for your thoughts and prayers.

WE LOVE EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU GUYS!!