"Is there any chance we're going to visit her today?"
"Have any of the siblings called her?"
"Can I call her?"
After a while DH got to the point where he already knew what he was going to say, so he just jumped ahead of him and mentioned what was going on. He seemed to take it easier that way.
I dialed his sister's number and he talked to her for a while. That was a good break. I asked him questions about his brothers and that seemed to take his mind off of things and calm him down.
I heard from the Dr who told me that it was really up to us whether we wanted to continue the Namenda & Aricept treatment or not. It costs $492 a month and the Dr said "Neither drug prevents progression of dementia. At best you get a one time increase in function level, then a continued decline. The decline in function rate is unchanged." I really think he needs to continue the Citalopram but I think the money is better spent in providing him daycare. So far "S" think we should continue him on the Namenda.
On another note, I wrote Mom's PCP and requested a psych eval for Ma while she was still in the hospital.
We had a nice break in the evening because Dad went to church with "K." DH had tried to call the hospital twice but Ma did not answer the phone. So we talked to the nurse that was taking care of her. She was fine, watching TV.
Shortly after that we received a phone call from her. DH talked to her for a while and she seemed fine. It was clear to see that when she worked herself up, she would have a hard time breathing because of the fluid in her lungs. She knows that they are getting a "place" ready for her. How much of it she knows we don't know. They could very well just telling her that so that she has something to look forward to. At the end of the conversation came the best part. She was getting short of breath and had a hard time talking. The last thing she said was, "Just take care of Dad, okay?"
That was good. Yeah, God!
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