11:00 AM – I called the hospital and spoke to Mom for a few minutes. She kinda of sounded out of it and one of the nurses said she might still be groggy from the change and strength of the medication she is on. It doesn’t help that she’s so hard of hearing. They asked if she had hearing aids and I let her know that she got some about 30 years ago and complained that they just made everything louder, so she hasn’t been interested in getting another set, even though several people have told her that they make them with noise cancelling technology that can quiet the tinnitus that makes it so hard for her to hear. She believes that the “Miracle Ear” hearing aids were supposed to be top of the line.
She told me that the nurses were awesome there and were treating her good. She kept saying that she wasn’t having any problems there. I kept trying to get things out of her, like, how the food was, if she was making any friends etc. She did say that she was comfortable there, “More than I was at the pink house.” So yeah, the dementia has her in it’s clutches. She thinks she went from the pink house to there. It may also mean that she’s not seeing pythons or anything else there, which of course would make her more comfortable.
She did say that she was watching TV in her room when I called. She thought that she might be sharing a room with an older lady that just came in, so they evidently aren’t private rooms after all, but she said that she doesn’t have any enemies, so that’s good. I told her that I loved her and missed her and she said, “Thank you.”
Anyway, that was pretty much the extent of it, so really not much news. I will post again when I have the conference call on Thursday the 26th.