{"id":302,"date":"2014-09-01T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2014\/09\/back-from-detroit-part-1-update-on-dad.html"},"modified":"2015-03-01T22:24:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T04:24:21","slug":"back-from-detroit-part-1-update-on-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2014\/09\/back-from-detroit-part-1-update-on-dad.html","title":{"rendered":"Back from “Detroit”, part 1: update on Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

So we were at mom and dad\u2019s over Labor Day weekend, and I thought I\u2019d start with a brief update on Dad, for regular readers.<\/p>\n

A month ago<\/a>, when we last visited, Dad was still at the rehab facility.\u00a0 He\u2019s been home for a week and a half now.\u00a0 The good news:\u00a0 physically, he\u2019s far from top form, but a lot better than could have been the case.\u00a0 He\u2019s got his walker, in fact, two walkers, one for upstairs and one for downstairs, but he can actually navigate the stairs.\u00a0 They are in possession of grab bars for the toilet and shower, which my husband was planning on installing this weekend, but concluded they need a professional, so as to not risk damaging the tilework.\u00a0 And he shuffles when he walks, but the walking, and the standing, itself, at least from all appearances, isn\u2019t as difficult as I had feared.\u00a0 He still has therapists coming several times a week for the next several weeks \u2014 they\u2019re not sure exactly for how long \u2014 and has exercises he\u2019s supposed to be doing.<\/p>\n

The bigger difficulty will be nudging my dad to maintain physical activity over the long term, after the therapists have signed their log sheets and said goodbye, especially since he\u2019s now under a 4 month driving prohibition, and will be dependent on my mom to get anywhere (the nearest \u201cdestination\u201d of any kind is the shopping mall 1\/2 mile away, and even that, I imagine, doesn\u2019t offer anything of interest).\u00a0 We spent some time over the weekend trying to convince my parents to check out the senior activities (hot lunch, card groups, water and chair exercise) at the community center, and will continue to prod them.<\/p>\n

And mentally?\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to say.\u00a0 My husband spent a lot of the weekend working on taxes with him and Dad followed his calculations, but couldn\u2019t have done the math on his own \u2014 although, to be sure, these were really complicated gain\/loss calculations, so that doesn\u2019t necessarily speak to his ability to manage his day-to-day financial affairs.\u00a0 He made other mistakes in simple things that cause us to be concerned.\u00a0 And the short-term memory fails periodically, thinking, for instance, that it had been three days, rather than a week and three days, since he came home.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s that \u2014 more to come in the future.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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