Yesterday was Uncle Tom's memorial gathering -- a good time to remember him and enjoy seeing family on that side that we don't see enough. Enjoyed hearing Lynn and Merit's memories. Dorrie taped it so that can show it to Dad.
Mom had a fall yesterday morn. Someone found her on her knees on the floor of her room. Not sure how long she was there. She hurt her knee and also her rear, so we're not quite sure what happened. She was able to come to the memorial gathering -- Dor picked her up -- but she was moving incredibly slowly. In hind sight, she should have come in a wheelchair. I spoke to her this morning and she sounded very tired and said that her knees felt OK but her lower back hurt.
After the service, Liz took Mom back for lunch and we went to visit Dad. Sharon was there and later Ted stopped by with Aunt Mary. Merit had stopped by the day before. Nice for Dad to have all these surprise visitors -- he really enjoyed them.
At the hospital we spoke quite a bit with Ben the 'swallowing guy' who told us in detail about Dad's video swallowing tests and everything related to his problem -- very informative. Dad 'failed' his swallowing test Monday, but they are beginning to feed him anyway (as we asked). It did feel like it was good we were there in person to ask about him getting food. Seemed like it might not have happened otherwise, though I don't really know. Things tend to slip through the cracks.
Went back to Lima after a while where Liz and MB worked on going through things in the apartment with help from Mom. Full day.
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