Last night I woke up and Cowboy was moving his pillows around and pulling back the covers on the bed. When I asked him what he was doing he asked me "Where is the telephone?" He kept looking around on the bed and on the floor near the bed and finally got back in bed and went back to sleep. Am not sure what I should or should not do when these hallucinations happen but at this point they are very benign.
We had an appointment this morning at the Va for bloodwork. They have a certain protocol to make sure that the person is actually who they say they are. When the tech asked him his name he was able to respond but when they asked for his social security number he couldn't tell them. I tried to give them the information but they wouldn't take it from me. Cowboy, after being asked a couple of times, just looked at him kind of blankly. I explained that he couldn't tell them and then they required that he pull out his ID from his wallet. Seems a bit much but that is just the way it is.
There are a couple of things that I really miss at this point. We used to have these lively discussions about the news, politics, neighborhood gossip. Now he doesn't seem to care and cannot carry on a conversation about any of it. Hard to explain but he is just so silent. The other thing is getting any input on any kind of decision whether it is what to have for dinner, whether to buy something or whether to plan to do something, he has no input.
I tell him every day that I love him and kiss and hug him often. He responds in kind. At least I still have some affection going both ways.
I arranged a substitute for my usual monthly bunco tonight. I don't know how to ask someone to look after him and I can't leave him for 2 plus hours. He goes to bed about 8 and we have to do certain things before that, like take medicine, take out his hearing aids, his teeth, his glasses, etc. He often forgets and that could result in broken hearing aids or glasses.
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