Spirits

Mom seems pretty much herself.  She has made friends at Granite Farms and seems OK with it, though she really would like to go back to the apartment.

Dad is more up and down.  Perhaps this is partly because his sugar has fluctuated so much (the doctor said it has been between 30 and 400!).  Marybeth and I had a great visit with him when he was in the hospital.  He was in fine spirits and making jokes.  He ate his whole meal including a hamburger.  I'd not seen that in a long time.  He ate without his lower dentures.  Said his doctor had recommended it that morn.  Who knows.  The next day, he was back to using his dentures.  I had hoped that maybe finally he was starting to eat well, but it may have been an anomaly.  He really needs to eat (and drink) because he has lost a lot of weight.  The doctor now has him on pureed food, but I don't know that it is helping.  The next day (yesterday) he was not in as good spirits.  He also missed Mom a lot.  I hope that having her nearby now helps, though we really need her to spend more time with him.  All of us are trying to spend time with them -- especially to encourage him.

Dad's memory is pretty bad and his sense of time is really wacky.  For example, last week he told me that the TV in the apartment had not been working for a long time.  Liz later told me it was working the day before and the reason it wasn't working was that he was trying to operate it with the DVD controller (a mistake I could easily make:).