So don’t ever ask me to play charades

So all day yesterday and through the night mom is bringing her hands to her chest then throwing them down in disgust as I try to guess what that means. You want that tube out? – Shakes head no.  ”You have pain”  - Shakes head no ” You have gas? – Shakes head no and throws down her arms. What? That’s possible!

I just talked to the new nurse Jan about it and she walked up to mom, mom does the hand gesture and the nurse says  ”oh, drink!” and mom lights up. In my defense that really was a pathetic attempt to request a drink.  Then it got good,  Jan told her no, you can’t have a drink  and mom got into it with her via hand gestures.  They settled on swabbing out her mouth and mom seems to be better now.

Overall mom had a fairly uneventful evening and I had an excuse to watch Super Bowl XL (again). The doctors are starting to stroll in for their daily reports now. Kidney doc says there has been slight  improvement again this morning – Creatine is down 2.1 vs 2.2 yesterday.    I’ll post a summary after all disciplines have been through their morning evaluations.

Another funny this morning: Jan came up and introduced herself when her shift started and asked if I was mom’s husband.   I know I have some graying hairs but, really? Com’on! Must be my morning look or something.