Hey there.
We were down to Woodstock today and visited Alice. She is very weak now, and is almost unable to move around. She shifts her feet a bit in the bed, but doesn't move her hands much and even chewing has become difficult for her. She is eating soft foods now: pudding, yogurt, applesauce, ice-cream. Yesterday she had some egg salad--or scrambled eggs, I forget which. Today was an ice-cream day. It was warm in her room at the hospice, so why not? She had trouble using a straw today, so they offered her a spouted cup (like a 'sippy cup') and things seemed to go much better with that.
She is very quiet--only has a few words a day. Her eyes are bright, however and she watches the goings-on carefully. She is sleeping much of the time--even between her 'meals' of yogurt and ice-cream, she would nap for an hour or two.
Her bird-feeder is a busy place now and there is a healthy debate about the type of birds that are visiting: sparrows? what kind of sparrows? finches? Aunt Joyce identified a 'pine siskin' but I think she might have made that up!
We visited for a while with Aunt Nancy -- Joyce and Clarence were there this morning. Joyce Montgomery popped in this afternoon--I think she's a friend from Teacher's College.
Doug has not been in for a couple of days: he fainted again, this time while in the passenger seat of his brother's car. Jack just kept driving but drove him to the Emergency Department of Woodstock Hospital. Doug was admitted and tonight will be his second night there. He's having lots of tests and is meeting with a physiotherapist, I think. Hopefully they can address whatever it is that is causing his blood pressure to be so fearfully low.
Please keep both of them in your thoughts. Take care.
love, Robin.
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