Tuesday, September 23, 2014 And how are you???

Well we are home, arrived here by ambulance yesterday..4:00 p.m. Mac slept all day Sunday, and all Monday till we arrived home..he only ate a couple of bites of a banana both days and that's it..So it was with trepidation that I approached his room on the second floor;but he was so tired he just drifted off to sleep in the room there which he shares with a very quiet old man. So this morning I was prepared to see him still lying in he bed, though the head nurse told me he would have breakfast around 8:00-8:30..Surprise there was Mac, sitting at the side of his bed, he had walked, by himself out of the room, the preposee had apparently just brought him back. So she dressed him for the day (with some non-cooperation from Mac)..but then he was fine, I was shocked, he was walking and smiling, and quite happy. I brought his breakfast up to our apartment - he was not keen on the bowl of porridge, no brown sugar or cream, orange juice and toast..so I gave him his usual brekkie mix of bran and bran flakes, strawberries, bananas yogurt and cream...ate it all quite happily.

Later he had a good lunch here in our apartment, also supplied by the 2nd floor kitchen; after when speaking to Maureen on the phone...he answered all questions clearly, and then surprised her by asking that question, "and how are you???plus when he coughed, said "excuse me"...the rest of the day, continued in this positive way..even to the extent that I could leave him on the 2nd floor with the other residents there, said goodbye, and went to get a few groceries...rushed back and all was fine...wow this is looking good. By the way the 2nd floor is a lockdown floor so he cannot leave plus there are preposees checking the residents who all seem to sit in a large circle around in the activity area either watching t.v. or just sitting in their wheelchairs or regular big chairs. Mac seemed quite at home..

Tonight no problem he seems to accept that room downstairs is his bedroom, I stayed till he had his pills, then left saying - "see you in the morning", and heard him say "okay" so that's it...okay..hurrah I'm not expecting this to be the way it is every day, but I'm enjoying this to the hilt...now to watch t.v. wow something I never could do - hmmm what's on, must go and see, g'nite.