Dad is finally up here with us!
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| Mon, 06-26-2006 - 5:07am |
Well we drove 12 hours thru road construction, blasting, and a very unfortunate fatal accident to get to Dad on Friday. We loaded up all his things he wanted brought up and then hubby drove back up Saturday while Dad and I flew back up Saturday as well.
He really didn't want to leave all his friends, but also knew he can't be alone right now. Today though, he seemed in very good spirits. I moved the hummingbird feeder so he could see them feed and that made him really happy. He misses his birds from his old house where he had feeders and bird houses everywhere. In his apt he is not allowed to have anything like that. I told him I would get some black oil seeds and put up a seed feeder so he can see the chickadees and sparrows feed as well. That seemed to make him very happy and positive about getting better. He also saw the hawk hunting in the field next door and that got him up to the window watching.
He kept talking about gaining his strength back so he could go out and refill the feeders and he ate more today than he had all last week. He seems to get more of an appetite when I am around, don't know if it's because I keep reminding him that he needs to put food into him to get stronger again but am just glad he's eating lots.
He goes in to see his new oncologist on Friday and should resume his chemo treatments on the 5th of July. He is having some reactions to the chemo, blisters in his mouth and throat and on his tongue as well, along with his mouth being very dry. This does make it more difficult for him to eat solid foods like meats, but the blisters seemed to have gone down a little between yesterday and today.
Will keep you updated as we go along here, we're still having some issues with one of Dad's friends, saying that he doesn't think it's going to work up here and that when Dad has had enough up here, the friend will hop on the plane and bring him back down. Nice friend, fighting and putting negitive thoughts into Dad's head when he needs positive thoughts to get him through this. The biggest fear I have is that if my dad went back down with the friend is that this person only does things that benefit him so I worry that maybe he is looking to get power of attorney over Dad and then who knows what would happen. And of course, to Dad it would make sense to give it to him, if Dad was living with him. (Right now I have POA but it could be changed if Dad was pushed hard enough)
Kim

Kim, thanks for the update and I can't tell you how happy I am to hear of your dad's positive response to the move.
Judy
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Thanks Judy for your support.
Kim
Kim anything that your dad will tolerate eating that has calories works.
Judy
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