Happy Easter

I hope you all had a Happy Easter!

Gma Grumpy made it out to church. She said it was the longest hour and 15 minutes of her life. She also made it to Gma Meservy's for Easter dinner.

March's test scores are in!!!!

Yes! The lab reports are back!!!! She has improved in some areas and other's she's still getting a bad grade in!!!

Here are her new scores:

URR: 70%!!!! That's great!!! She was at 64% last month!

BUN: 30 :( She was at 53 last month and she is way too low!!! Have to increase protein!)

Albumin: 3.0 Proteins and Calories Too low! Should be 4.0 or higher!!!!

Potassium 4.4 this month!! :0) Last month she was at 5.0!!!! She's doing better this month!!

Phosphorus: 4.1!!!! Last month 6.7 Acceptable is between 3.5 - 5.5!!! another great score! :0)

Fluid: 0 - 3.5 !!!!! Last month 0.1 - 7.6. She's doing great!!!

Now if only we can get her protein up!!!! We will try to make her drink her protein powder gunk again!

They usually test her during the 2nd week of the month. So we'll see if she does better!!!!

I asked how her weight has been and she's been coming in at about 71.1 kg!!! That's good. If she's that low when she gets there, they don't take as much fluid out of her. They try to send her home around 7.0 kg. So she's doing good with weight!!! Last November when she was in the hospital for CHF (Congestive Heart Failure) Dr. Lange wanted her at 69.0 kg. So she's doing good.

We had a fun day today!!! I got to experience a first....I got to shave my mother's legs!!! She probably hasn't done it in over 30 years!!! The Easter bunny got her some new clothes and I thought she should have hairless calves!!! She was all for shaving them. We used Eddie's electric razor. After I did her legs, Eddie shaved her chin and her upper lip and whatever else needed some hair removal on her face. She's planning to go to Sacrament Meeting and dinner at Sister Meservy's tomorrow. Of course this was before dialysis...so we'll see how she does when she gets home. But at least she's thinking positive!!! Hopefully we'll have some pictures of tomorrow!!!!

Have a Happy Easter Eve!!!
Dee

G-ma's trip to Heaven!

In all of G-ma's stories of where she's been and what she's done in the last six weeks....we found the proof that she's talked with God!

There's No Place Like Home!

G-ma agrees!

I'm thinkin' in the last six weeks she's been over the rainbow or at least sleeping in some poppies!!!!

Friday's "Abenture"

Today Eddie and I had planned to go to the movies. G-ma decided she wanted to go too!

The last movie G-ma saw at the "theater" was Star Wars - Phantom Menace. I took her on opening day to see it. She really didn't enjoy it. It was WAY TOO LOUD! We even took earplugs!

Well, it was another opening day. There were no lines wrapped around the building. There were only 5 people in the theater!!! We went to see....."College Road Trip." Yes, we really did! Eddie and I liked the pig the best. G-ma likes Donny Osmond! (I liked him best at the end of the movie.) I like the pig pirate flag the very best. It wasn't too loud for G-ma!!!

A New "Abenture"

Yesterday, "da mudder" went on an "abenture!"

She still has her crazazy moments.

Sunday night when I was turning the lights off she asked if everyone was home. I said, "Yes!" She said, "I haven't seen Tody!" I said, "He lives in Reno." She looked at me and said, "I know that!" It's fun when the light bulb goes on and she realizes she's a little nuts!

Friday night she told us that while she was gone for the last 6 weeks she was learning how to make stain glass windows!

She's told me twice now that she needs to go to the bathroom. I tell her, "So go!" It's very interesting the things she's not capable of doing, that she doesn't remember she's not capable of doing. In her head she thinks she can do lots of things, but she really can't! She did write thank you notes last week to the ladies who brought her flowers or visited her at the RHSNC and I only read one and it repeated itself twice. She's just not quite right sometimes. So, we just do what we need to and remind her of stuff and let her try stuff she thinks she can do and then do what it takes to get it done!

So there you have it!!!!

Dee