12:24 p.m. - 2006-03-24
Lucid again

The Amazing Human Brain

Thank you all so much for your wonderful and supportive comments.

I am truly amazed at the human brain and how it can be so "out there" one day and come completely back to health the next. I have also learned not to project how things will go as they will certainly go a different way than you imagine.

Mom's mind is back now. Yesterday, Mike went to the hospital before the transfer and she was sitting at the nurses station...talking away...having the time of her life and lucid.

The nurses discovered that she was only combative and trying to escape in an effort to escape the lonliness of her room. Once they put her out with the hospital staff, she was happy and content.

She didn't mind going to the home and once there they decided that she was misrepresented to them and may not need total lock down. They will keep her in the lock down unit to sleep so nothing happens overnight but will take her out to the "normal" side for activities and meals in the "nice" dining room. She was so comfortable that she instantly took a nap after they settled her in.

It makes her feel good that she is just across the street from the casino (or Casina as she calls it).

Since I am sure that periods of loonieness will come back, I don't think she will ever come home and I think it has been very very lonely at our house for her, particularly during the winter when no one goes anywhere.

Mike had felt like he was betraying her by sending her to that home, but he now feels much better. Both of us do. Although there are sure to be periods of heart ache ahead, I think we have made great strides in making the moves to handle Mom in her old old age and declining mental health.

We can come and get her and bring her home for burgers in the backyard when it gets nice, or out to the casino for dinner and a bit of slot playing and she will no doubt develop a social life in the home talking to the staff and the other patients. What was looking bleak...now looks better.

I am just amazed at the capacity of the human mind to be in one state one day and completely back the next. Scary...but amazing.

P. I. Yarnsmith

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