Post Birthday Party Blues

   
   I guess I'm going to be posting on Monday's instead of Sunday's after all.  There is more to tell after her hospice visit, and I actually have more time.  So check on Monday nights.
   Yesterday after meeting we went to Tom & Sue's for a Hemet birthday party for Helena.  Mom had had a really good night's sleep the night before and we actually made it to Sunday School...a first in months.   Since Brenda and Helena we here for the long weekend (MLK) she decided to host a family party here for her town-bound folks.  Brenda was very very worried because she and Helena had just finished with a bad cold and she thought it was maybe too soon, too risky to expose Gramma.  Since the party was outside in the sunshine and breeze, Mom thought she would be fine.  Besides, there was birthday cake to eat.
   Tim and Edie Brown were still here, so they were invited too.  Sue made her wonderful spaghetti, and there was salad and garlic bread and tree-ripened green olives from Corning, Ca.  yummy.  Mom had liberty with the menu, except maybe too much Parmesan, I thought.  No after affects, though.
    At 3:00 she announced that she wanted to go home.  I was a little surprised as it's usually me that is anxious about the right departure time.  She went straight to bed and slept for six hours.  I stayed home from Gospel because I didn't want her to wake up and be alone.  She is often confused about the time if she wakes up in the dark.  She woke at 9:00pm and was hungry and in pain.  We took care of both, ( english muffin and hot tea) and had her sit up in her chair for a few hours.  At midnight she went back to bed with her night time pills and sleep aid pill and slept until 7:30 this morning. 
     I guess EVENT days are going to be like this.  go go go, and then collapse. 
Her nurse this morning was concerned about some new 'cracklings' deep in her lungs...usually a sign of agitated congestive heart failure.  No signs of a cold.   YAY.  All else was good.  We had been keeping her blood sugar readings low especially, and her blood pressure low too, so she could have cake and salt and noodles and olives.  She was one happy camper!