From Dor:
hmmmm - she definitely was being a little over-ambitious Sunday. Betsy Fry gave her a ride to church Sunday morning and I couldn't see her from where I sit in the choir. When I caught up to her afterwards (she was with Betsy at one of the tables in our Alternative Christmas Market, which was a great place to talk to all kinds of people) I didn't see her walker. When I asked her about it, she said that she had left it in Betsy's car!! I had reinforced with Betsy that she would need some help getting up out of the car and asked her please just to drop her off at the ramp into the narthex, and then park, so that she wouldn't have to walk far on uneven ground. I didn't think to mention that the NEEDS to take the walker with her everywhere. She had no falls or bumps, but if I hadn't been holding her arm as we walked out to wait for Betsy, who brought the car around, there would have been another. She started to stumble forward walking down the ramp - even with one hand on the railing and me holding her other arm. I think the "it's ok to go alone" needs to be conditioned on absolute use of the walker at all times. She truly is really good with the walker - and after seeing her with it in church twice I thought she had cleared that hurdle of wanting to do without-so this is a bit of a setback.
I have some information on the Life-alert monitoring systems, BTW (actually a comparison chart of several such systems) - maybe I should bring it tomorrow? I think even in Assisted Living it might be a good idea for her to have something like that. Some day she will fall when there isn't a roomate (or spouse) to report it.
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