It is 8:20 and Cowboy is still asleep. I can remember a time when he was always up at 5AM and probably had drunk his first cup of coffee. He also took care of the dog, emptied the dishwasher, brought in the paper and got his own breakfast. That began to change about a year ago I think.
We had therapy yesterday. In preparation I tried to drill him Wed night by getting him to repeat our telephone number and address over and over. He couldn't get it out, not once. He would rearrange the numbers each time. It was the worst and most disappointing session yet. Maybe the "sundown effect" ?
The speech therapist said he can get the date pretty well but not the time and suggested I bring up time and ask questions frequently. She also suggested we work with playing cards on memory games. After we left at 10:30 needed to be back at one so I asked him how long we had to do errands and get lunch before we went back at one for physical therapy. He couldn't figure it out. So we did errands and had some lunch and back to physical therapy. He did pretty well with elongating his gait and walking backwards today. Every time I see him shuffling I say "long steps, long steps" and mostly he tries to do that.
Had to fight the insurance people yesterday. Last month we had picked up a 90 day supply of one of his diabetes meds. Somehow it disappeared shortly thereafter. I remember bringing it home in a small paper bag along with a bottle of vitamins. Probably laid it on the counter in the bathroom and then it disappeared. Don't know if Cowboy threw it away or he put it somewhere but after a thorough search didn't find it asked the Dr. to write another one. He was glad to do it but the insurance co didn't want to pay for it. So I said "I will just buy it, how much is it?" Then I learned that 90 days would be $723. that would have been rather painful so we called the insurance co and after much wrangling and the help of the pharmacist, we got it filled for my co-pay.
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