Mom's Lab Report for May 2008 and Other Ramblings

URR (how well dialysis treatments are working.) 72%
Last month it was 71%
BUN last month 58 this month 46. They want her drinking her protein stuff at every meal. Doesn't work real well! She's not cooperative!
Albumin: 3.3 Same as last month. Should be 4.0 or higher. Also has to do with her protein intake.
Potassium 4.2 Good level
Phosphorus 3.7 Good level
Fluid: 0 - 2.4
Last month 0 - 2.8
Should be 3kg or less per treatment, so this is good!

We just need to work on her taking her protrein drink at every meal and eating more protein throughout the day.

She's been very interesting and entertaining lately. She said she didn't "go anywhere" last night. The other nights since Saturday she's been at our "other house" or in other rooms, in this house, during the night. Willy Wonka's chocolate factory is across the river in Montebello and she saw the Oompa Loompa's there. She said I could ask Armida and she'd tell me it was true!
She told me on Sunday that she had the most intelligent conversation with Eddie that she'd had in the last two years. She said he was standing at the head of her bed talking to her. He was actually in the bedroom when this was supposedly going on.

She also said she talked with his Mom, Ruby the other night. She's at the house across the river that we "also live at." She talks about being able to see Peggy Parker's house from our house over there. Peggy Parker's parents also live in our house across the river. I asked her, "Aren't they dead?" She gave me this disgusted look and said, "Why should they give up a perfectly lovely house!" I asked her if Dad has been to visit and she says, no, we kids bugged him enough and he doesn't want her cuz she was very naughty when she was little.

I told her the other day that Eddie's going to go away for a few days next week. She asked if he was taking the baby. We chuckled! We asked her if the baby's a boy or a girl and she said she didn't know. She told him he could take the baby with him on the airplane and stuff it on the seat and sit on it! Yesterday, she bolted up and bed and said, "Where's the baby!" I think there might have been one crying on TV for a minute. We don't have a baby!

She hasn't left the house in three weeks. I asked her today if she wanted to do her exercises or practice standing up and she said no! I don't think she'll ever stand again. I think she's in her hospital bed for the long run.

It's sad and the days that she's cranky, remind me of her Mother and it's really hard to deal with. When she's telling us stories about where she's been in the night and asking us crazy questions we are entertained and she's much more pleasant. She laughs with us at those times.

Patience is a virtue, a virtue I'm sometimes lacking!