At 6:30 this morning, about half hour before we usually get up, Cowboy sat up straight in bed and then got on all fours and started trying to get over to my side of our bed. I asked him what he was doing and he said he was looking for the antelope. After a couple of minutes when he found it too hard to navigate the bedclothes, the dog and me he got off on his side and proceeded to dig around in the bedclothes for something. He eventually worked his way around to my side of the bed and started feeling my foot and then my leg. He then said hmmmmm.....and asked me if that was my leg. I told him yes and then asked him again what he was doing. He was "looking for the deer". The episode lasted about 10 minutes and then he got back in bed. After a couple more minutes he seemed to be OK. Seemed like a hallucination to me.
It took standing over him and helping him to get him dressed this morning. Had to dry him off, turn on his toothbrush and put the shaving cream on his face. Finally got him put together.
Had both speech and physical therapy this morning. Although he seems to be talking a little more and little better the dementia makes it hard to see much progress. The therapist said we would evaluate what's next the end of next week.
Physical therapy is going better. He seems to be trying harder to get his walking better although he still shuffles a lot and seems very tentative when moving around.
Testing.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this painful journey of yours. As Phyllis said, all you can do is love Cowboy wherever he is today and continue to courageously and gracefully handle the ups and downs that you face each day. Somewhere, maybe deep inside Cowboy's mind, there is an awareness of what you are doing and that it's prompted by the love you have shared.
ReplyDeleteYou are both in my prayers every day.