I received a call this noon that my mother-in-law was having some sort of episode. She seemed confused and was refusing to eat. Naturally I went to see what was up and was thinking perhaps she had a stroke. She clearly wasn't her normal active self when I got there. I am one to observe what in the world is going on so took several hours of talking with her and the nurses and she seemed to actually perk up and then was willing to eat. There is a call into the doctor and so we are waiting for guidance.
The fact that she perked up speaks loudly to the importance of communicating with our elders and assuring them we care. I am not patting myself on the back, it was just interesting to see the transformation from the quiet scared woman to the more relaxed and willing to work with us woman in the course of a few hours. I am grateful she will listen to reason with persistence and grateful she does not appear to have had a stroke. We shall see.
In the meantime I am just tired. My youngest had strep and bad ear infections this week. The older ones have been strongly urged to persevere in their schooling and hopefully they did while I was away this afternoon. I haven't circled the wagons to see if that is true or not. I did have the smarts to call in reinforcements to help with dinner at church this evening. Hopefully I can get to church later but in the meantime will probably slug around. The phone has not rung for the doctor report so......rest while I can.
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