Sorry for my neglect!

I haven't been very good at keeping the updates very accurate lately, sorry about that!

Nana is actually having a pretty good summer this year! She seems to be doing pretty good for now!

She decided not to spend the entire summer at Dee's like she did last year. But she has gone a couple times for a week or two at a time! That seems to suit her a little better.

She's been attending church a lot more regularly. She even attended our ward summer party and Jon's play at an outdoor theater last week! She still has a hard time getting around, but seems to be making an effort to do so.

Last week we decided to take her to get her eyes checked to see if we could renew her glasses prescription and get her seeing a bit better. The Doc said that renewing her glasses would only improve her eyesight by about 10%. What she really needed was cataract surgery! We talked it over and he called the surgeon and talked it over and we have all decided to go ahead with the surgery!

She saw the surgeon today, we go back to have another test tomorrow. Then her right eye is scheduled for Aug 10th and the left on Aug 24th! He said it is a very fast, very easy surgery and she will be able to see TONS better. She shouldn't need glasses for distance, just to read and see things up close!

She is so excited to be able to see again!

Nana's back at Dee's

Nana decided to pull a fast one on me this weekend. She announced saturday that she was headed to Dee's for the rest of May! Dee finished school and they started making plans!

Last year she went for the whole summer, this year she decided to break it up and go for a few weeks, then come home for a few weeks, then go back again.

She seems to be on an upswing right now, so I hope she does well!

Happy Mother's Day!!

More Awake!

Just a quick note to let you know she is doing better again. I don't know what that was all about, as usual.

She still sleeps a lot, but when she's awake she's much more alert than she was when I wrote last.

She spent Easter weekend with Dee, at her house. All went well, She had a great time, but she's always happy to be back in her bed!!

Doing Not So Good, After All

It's funny how it works, I mention how well she's doing and bamm! She's back to sleeping A LOT!

She's back to sleeping 16 to 20 hours a day, and when she's awake she's very sleepy and she's slurring her words. She's telling us she has been experiencing some lower back pain. She's back on oxygen about half the day. This has been going on for almost two weeks.

I really didn't think too much of it because we all know we've been here before. What made me think I better start saying something is that when her nurse came over yesterday, she started talking funeral arrangements. I had to pull out my stuff and show her what we had and where we were at in that regard.

I don't want to alarm anyone, I just want to do my job to inform you whats going on. This could mean nothing at all, just one of those little pit falls and she'll bounce back like she's been doing. Or maybe the nurse knows something I don't! I'll try to keep you posted.

Feeling Pretty Good

Just an update...

Nana seems to be feeling pretty good these days! Her foot seems to be healing, finally. She is attending her church meetings and getting out on shopping trips here and there throughout the month. She made it out to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie, too!

She's enjoying her readers. She has a volunteer from Hospice that comes once a week and reads her RS lessons and conference issues of the Ensign to her. She also has Jon reading the Fablehaven books to her, it's fun to hear them talking and laughing in there.

So far, no more falls!!

Nana's Coming Home

Nana is coming home on Thursday for New Year's Eve.

Although she has enjoyed spending time with Dee and her family, this trip to Dee's didn't turn out as well as her summer break. She just didn't have the energy she had then, so she has fallen 3 times.

Her foot was still in so much pain, hospice arranged to have a mobile x ray machine come out and x ray her foot. Sure enough one of the bones to her toe is broken. They can't really cast it, so they wrapped it good. Hopefully that will help it to heal faster and better. If she had to break something, I'm so glad it's her foot. I can't believe she hasn't broken anything before now! Some of her falls have been pretty bad. I hope this doesn't mean she's going to start breaking bones now, we'll have to be way more careful about falls!!

New Moon and Other Stuff

Up until this last weekend, Nana has been doing quite excellent lately. All of a sudden she's way tired and sleeping a lot lately. We think she has been experiencing a couple of small strokes, and it has taken a bit out of her. She does seem to be perking up again, though.

Nana could hardly wait and made it to see the New Moon Movie! She loved it!! We didn't see a poster to take her picture in front of, and it was way busy and we both just really wanted to get home. So we settled for a picture in front of the doors with the new Disney movie the Princess and the Frog. Nana of course had to be a ham!!

We had a great Thanksgiving. Dee came over and spent the day with us!

She'll be spending Dee's Christmas break with her. The plan is for Dee to come and get her on Friday. I'm sure they'll have a blast together.