Sorry I have been absent!  Been back over with my dad since Friday, I took my youngest with me so she could see my sister as well as my Dad and gave Daddy the weekend off! My Dad is doing better I think although it is kind of hard to tell sometimes.  He is currently in a recovery facility/nursing home which is very nice. All the people I met there were wonderful and seemed to just want to help!

He is still very medicated for pain and the like so he is a bit dazed if you get my drift!  He had a couple of interesting nights where he couldn’t find the call button for the nurse to come which he wasn’t happy about and he got up out of bed by himself which is a big no no! (I’m still freaking out about that!)

My daughter was just a peach, on her best behavior, we stopped by Friday night for just a little while and my sister left with us to get something to eat.  She was ready to head out as she had been putting in 12-14 hour days for the last couple of days and was ready for a break as it is all pretty intense.  I went over for her as much as for my dad!  Because sometimes he just isn’t very nice! We stopped and got a bottle of wine and stayed up talking until 2:00 in the morning!

On Saturday we got up and around and got to the nursing home about 10:30 or so and dad had had a bad night ( as I mentioned above!!) he didn’t get a lot of sleep which is just hard as they have to come in and check on you and give you medicine etc but he had a good breakfast and acted glad to see us.  We stayed until about 4:00 which was a long day for my four year old but she did just great and I kept her occupied when she got a little antsy. They keep dad pretty busy with physical therapy and the like and we were able to have a nice lunch with him.  He had some friends stop by as well.

After we left, we headed to Goodwill to do some shopping and decompress and then went out for a nice meal……then home to collapse!  Up again on Sunday, we decided to both drive so I could leave if needed as I didn’t think my daughter would last through another big day, the newness would have worn off.  We got to watch him do his physical therapy again and were a bit embarrassed at some of the comments he makes to the PT gals!  Sometimes he just isn’t very nice!! (have I said that before?)

Again we all left for a bit of a break and to let Dad rest.  We hit some stores near by just to have a break then we went back.  My sister went back in to see Dad again as she was leaving for Florida today and wanted to spend more time with him and say her goodbyes and I left with my daughter to go home and wash my car (Did I mention my dad wouldn’t let me drive him in it to the hospital cos it was dirty…..what is that all about?!) so I went home and gave it a wash…..(possibly more on this later!)

Today we just cleaned up dad’s house a bit and got ready to go home, I had to take my sister to the airport, then we stopped to see Dad before heading home ourselves.  It has been a good weekend but very intense!!!! We will have to make a couple more trips over during the next few weekends and then my other sister is flying in on the 21st of the month.

It will be interesting to see how his recovery goes.  We found out that they will not let him go home until he can manage on his own.  He lives by himself and has stairs in his house and doesn’t have anyone full time to care for him so he may have to stay longer we just don’t know at this point.  I am glad he can’t just go home and that they are going to be looking after his best interest but I know that he won’t be happy about that!

So, he is on the road to recovery but it is going to be a long one I think, I hope he behaves himself and does what they tell him as I don’t want him to hurt himself and upset the whole process of recovery.  And I will worry while we aren’t there but I think he is in good hands…..he just needs to behave! behave! behave!!!!!!

Weary from the “road”

Grace

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