Just got an email from Yvonne giving us an update on Mom's condition and what's been happening lately.
Here's a copy of the email:
Dear family,
I've been meaning to write this update on Mom for sometime. Maybe now I will get it written.
The photo I'm sending with this email is from several weeks ago when Nick's mother, Shona, sent the lilies you see in the photo that was before Mom asked that the family not send flowers because she doesn't have a place to sit them where she can see them in her portion of the room. What Mom does want is a life-like baby doll. She wants me to go to the toy store and see what I can find. If you want to help with the cost of the doll, I will send you that info later once I find the doll she wants. I think I know what she wants.
Mom's feet and legs are swelling badly again, like they did months ago before she went into the nursing home. Her doctor has increased her diuretics to another pill. She was taking one in the morning and one in the evening. He just increased that extra pill for 2 or three days to see if they can get some more fluid out of her legs and feet. As of today it is not doing that. This is the first time that the increase of a water pill hasn't worked. I don't know what they will do next.
We believe that Mom's heart is failing again and that that is the reason for the swelling in her legs and feet or in other words the fluid retention. She was walking every day until a few days ago (about 50 steps or so at a time) until the pressure in her feet and legs prevented her from it. She has weak spells more often. Yesterday was an example of that. But today she is better and talking and more involved in conversation.
The old saying, good days and bad days is true and I suppose that is the way it is the older we get. We still go down to the bird room and out on the porch if it's not raining so she can get some sun. Mom is talking about trying to write a few more stories and I'm going to continue to help her by putting each one on a page that she designed. I am making a notebook for her. She wants it copied one for each of her children. She is remembering a few more stories from her past that she hasn't written about yet.
I'll write more later, BTW when you send me a check for Mom please put Iris Gray instead of Yvonne my bank is complaining that my first name is not being used. Thank you very much to those of you who are doing your part in helping me to take care of Mom.
Always, Yvonne
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