CAREGIVER NOTE:

Another flood in the bathroom…. nearly a full roll of TP plugging the commode and water everywhere. He wasn’t coping well, but tried to clean things up before I went to the door to check in on him after hearing water again. Easy fix, he was able to use the room again in pretty good time. This morning will be another wipe down with hopefully, we won’t have another flood at midnight for a while.

Positives for the day:
He reached out to one of his boys – to check up on him
Laughter and smiles
He ate much better and healthier yesterday drinking more water and some gatorade

CAREGIVER NOTE:
He’s been getting “lost” in the house the last week or so. It’s been rather difficult at times to try to help him make his way around and find where he needs to go. We had the case of the missing pants and belt — which he’d taken from another bedroom and moved to his own thinking they were his. Thanks to the baby cam, we were able to find them the following morning. We’re going to have to get a back-up belt just in case this happens again and I’m sure it will — as he’s popping in and out of there more frequently of late.

Lots of conversation yesterday about a sibling — his worries over her land and property which had been sold quite a number of years ago. He wanted to know about her children and where they were and what they were doing now, though he couldn’t recall all of their names without some help. I reached out to one of them and hope to hear back from her today to try to get an update on them all. We’ll see how that goes.

CAREGIVER NOTE:
Yesterday was story day. Lots of stories and lots of repeats. No new stories but you could see and feel them as he told them. He laughed, he cried – he added a few new bits here and there, but no big differences from previous shares. He was happy to share for several hours — and I’m pretty sure it made the “losses” a little easier to handle in the moment as he realized they were gone and he couldn’t just reach out to talk to them right then.

CAREGIVER NOTE:

Plugged toilet, flooded floors and more were the start to the day. Thankfully, the plug was easy to clear. Floors easy to mop and clean… but the drip into the basement will take a little longer to dry. Just grateful he came out to tell me there was a problem before it got any worse.

He doesn’t know who plugged the toilet –No blame from me as accidents do happen and I was okay with having to clean things up and sanitize surfaces wall to wall so he could use the bathroom when he needed to. Once that process was completed he had to check things out and flush the toilet about 10 times to make sure things wouldn’t back up again before he felt things were fixed and he could use the bathroom again.

CAREGIVER NOTES:

He was certain that his cousin Ernie had visited us just the other day – but he was terribly disappointed that he hadn’t been able to talk to him and “catch up” on things. He hoped Ernie would come around again soon. He wondered what his folks were doing and if they were staying cool like he was with the AC keeping things at a pleasant temperature in the house. I caught him wiping his eyes several times as the tears fell while he talked and shared a story or two. I felt so sad for him. He reminisced about a few things — including his mom’s garden, Ernie’s service in the Navy and more, so we talked about those things a little longer and after the tears stopped a while later, he was smiling for most of the rest of the afternoon and evening.