Tuesday, August 10, 2010
August 10
Alice Melbourne is 93 and will be going to be 94 this January. Since March of this year her family has been noticing changes that made us realize that we would be having to do some more things for her. The first change was her memory. Short term memory is vital to the every day tasks. The second change was the lack of her calling us. She generally called at least twice a week. Well today we are deciding on making a few changes that will help her considerably. We started home care back in March. That was not received very well and she told the first worker that she could go home. She slowly realized that they were there to stay and has since looked forward to their visits. First we are going to introduce her to a "walker". Up till now she has been managing without one. We have watched her walk and she really needs the help of staying stabalized. Secondly she is getting new glasses. Third, more home care is going to be available to her. Meals on wheels was working for a bit, but we realize that she is not eating all of the portions anyways and most of it is heading for the garbage. Well she will stick it into the fridge and not use it and then her cleaning lady comes to clean it out. Thanks Kim. Well I shall write some more later.
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August 23/10 Lucinda was out to Morden today, just for a bit. Dropping off my Daughter Kathryn for a camp staff reunion. Dropped in to see how things were going with Alice. She was glad to see me and was asking what she could do for the rest of the afternoon. I think she would like to see more people in the aftertoon to play games (cards) with her. Shall try to see what we can do for that. All was well with her today. It was good to talk to her with a hearing aid in her ear. Although she didn't want it. We tried it. And then she was telling me not to yell. We tried it with the tv and she had to turn the volume down. I soon realized that she couldn't understand what they were saying because the people on the tv talk fast. She can hear them. Well let's see what we can come up for that. Corn and Apple festival is this Friday and so it will be busy with cars going by. Something for her to watch, also some family might be coming out from the west. Hope they can make it. This would make her day.
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