We all got together for birthdays on Saturday at Liz's (dad was 85 -- thanks to all who sent a note!). Beautiful day and we had a great time. Neat to get Mom and Dad out. I think they had a lot of fun and it was good for all of us to see them, though we kept them up past bed time.
Dad seemed the same or better than the last few times I've seen him. Mom is having more trouble. It took a long time just to walk to the house from the car because her legs simply would not move for her. Once she got rolling, it was not too bad, but if she stopped it was hard to get them going again.
Then she fell later that night (@ 2 AM) on the way to the bathroom and again the next afternoon by the elevator. According to Liz:
Brenda (the nurse who called after the second fall) said she thinks Mom mostly falls backwards and lands on her back. She looked up the results of the urine test from last week (apparently they did some other tests as well, I don't know what), and the results of all were negative. Too bad, in a way. She said the symptoms remind her of Parkinson's, so I think I'll ask the neurologist about that this week. I believe they must've ruled it out earlier on, but what's to say that something new hasn't developed? Anyway, there aren't blood tests for this sort of thing, so it's possible it wasn't obvious earlier. Or something. Who knows.
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