Dad Days ~ September 2016

The days with Dad at Wesley Woods

continue on.......it really is the long 

good-bye on a down hill slope

with very few "good" moments.  

We LOVE and TREASURE

the rare moments of a smile!!!

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

This Sweet Boy brings lots of joy to that place!

Six years ago we spent our 

weekends and many days at 

rehab hospitals bringing Travis 

and others lots of joy.  

God knew we needed Huds♡

We are so thankful for Tereetha!

She is SO good with Dad and 

he loves her!!!!!!!❤

His routine is that they get him up

in the morning for breakfast and put 

him at the table.  He tries to feed 

himself and then they help him.  He sits

out in the dining room with other

patients sometimes going to therapy,

music, Bible Study, etc. - all depending

on the aid and if someone takes him.

Then Mother or one of us gets there

and we wait with him for lunch.  

We feed him lunch and sit with him.

Then they change him and move him

to his "chair" for the afternoon with 

his feet propped up.  He mostly sleeps/naps.

Then they get him up in the late afternoon

and put him back at the table.

One of us gets there and we wait on 

dinner with him and then we feed him.

After dinner, we watch the "zoo"

as we often call it because things get

crazy in the evening (sun downing - 

almost like how babies get fussy 

in the evenings).  Sometimes we move to 

be closer up to the TV in hopes

he will watch it or

move him down to the windows

to look outside.  Then it's time for

them to take him back to his room

to be changed, brush his teeth (if 

Tereetha is on!) and they put his pajamas 

on him and put him in bed.   

You can't help but say "what a life"....

and question what in the world

good can come from all of these people

having to live out their lives like this?    

I know there's a reason - it just might

not be this side of Heaven that I fully 

understand and know.  

Until then we will keep right on loving our Dad

and the other patients there!!!!!!!!!!!

AND pray they find a cure for

Alzheimer's as well as MANY other 

devastating diseases!!!

They give him a shower on M-W-F.

The nursing home has a hair salon

and Mother gets Dad's hair cut

there when he needs it.

Handsome and distinguished♥

He barely says anything but his 

funny personality comes out every once 

and a while.  Just not very often:(

We miss him.  

Our dear friends the Moores gave

us this AMAZING chair for Dad.

Angie's Mom passed away and she was

using this chair at her nursing home.

It's an electronic lift chair 

and with the press of a button it 

brings Dad to a standing position.  

This was SUCH a generous and kind

gesture.  Dad and the staff LOVE the chair.

It's very comfortable for Dad since

he spends all afternoon in it 

AND it makes getting him up and down

so much easier for the staff.

Angie and her family say it gives 

them comfort knowing their sweet 

mom's chair is being used.

We are incredibly grateful💓

Mrs. Jasek & Jim

LOL!  After dinner fun;)

See what I mean about the 

chair for Dad's afternoon!!!!!!!!♡

Jennifer & Tereetha spoil him!  

He usually falls fast asleep in the evening...

I'm sure the strong meds help but also

he just gets tired.  

He had fallen and hit his lip:(

Mary B...love her so much!

"You are my sunshine!"

Mother continues to AMAZE us!!!

The way she cares for and dotes on

Dad.  A truly loving wife

in sickness and in health.  

My heart aches for my sweet mama:(

Dad is clueless and that is one positive

to this disease in most cases and 

and especially after the beginning stages.

My sisters are there, too!

It's just that we all take different shifts.

These are pics I send to the mom/sister group

text to update them on my nights with Dad.  

Poor guy fell :(

Sometimes he forgets that he can't 

remember how to walk.

This is one crazy disease.  

Of course September takes me back

to this day that he did so, so much for...

my sweet, sweet dad💕

This...........