I visited my dad yesterday morning and took him for a walk. The morning was very beautiful, bright blue sky, a slight northerly breeze, a truly magnificent summer morning. After about a half mile of walking and as I was about to say how nice the new sidewalk was that we were upon my father's foot caught a pressure treated landscape perimeter abutting the sidewalk (covered with weeds) and fell down, face down into the over run flower garden. I was shocked to see him lying there. He didn't move a muscle for a moment and then slowly got up. He had some blood on his finger tips and his left palm was chewed up my the pavement that took the brunt of his fall. His knee had been scraped.
We walked back to Sentry Hill where a nurse cleaned him up, assessed him and bandaged him.
It was very frightening to see him sprawled out on the ground so suddenly. I had no idea that he was even falling as he was a step or two behind me.
It has become more difficult to take him out for a drive as when he needs to use the bathroom he needs it within minutes. And on walks this has become an issue. He walks much more beleaguered than even a month ago. He sort of limps, right shoulder forward with a bounce. Very uncharacteristic of him as he looks like he could tip over easily. As he did on our walk.
I don't like to think that I shouldn't be taking him for walks. I haven't brought him to my house since our summer party on July 18. After the party he had reached a new level of confusion which lasted for about a week. He was very foggy and more disoriented that previously.
After the nurse had bandaged my father he and I went back outside and filled a couple of cups of cracked corn that I keep in the back of my truck and fed the duck's in the pond adjacent to the Browning Wing at Sentry Hill. The pond is very pretty as are the flowers at the whole facility. It was very hard to tell him I had to take him back inside on such a beautiful day. He didn't understand. And I would have liked to stay much longer.
Sandra had planned an 80th birthday party for her mom in Bedford, NH. So I left him, inside and he was disappointed. It is becoming more difficult to leave as he really wants to go with me and on Friday was very insistent that he was going home as I was leaving. One of the activity personnel pulled him back inside, physically.
We walked back to Sentry Hill where a nurse cleaned him up, assessed him and bandaged him.
It was very frightening to see him sprawled out on the ground so suddenly. I had no idea that he was even falling as he was a step or two behind me.
It has become more difficult to take him out for a drive as when he needs to use the bathroom he needs it within minutes. And on walks this has become an issue. He walks much more beleaguered than even a month ago. He sort of limps, right shoulder forward with a bounce. Very uncharacteristic of him as he looks like he could tip over easily. As he did on our walk.
I don't like to think that I shouldn't be taking him for walks. I haven't brought him to my house since our summer party on July 18. After the party he had reached a new level of confusion which lasted for about a week. He was very foggy and more disoriented that previously.
After the nurse had bandaged my father he and I went back outside and filled a couple of cups of cracked corn that I keep in the back of my truck and fed the duck's in the pond adjacent to the Browning Wing at Sentry Hill. The pond is very pretty as are the flowers at the whole facility. It was very hard to tell him I had to take him back inside on such a beautiful day. He didn't understand. And I would have liked to stay much longer.
Sandra had planned an 80th birthday party for her mom in Bedford, NH. So I left him, inside and he was disappointed. It is becoming more difficult to leave as he really wants to go with me and on Friday was very insistent that he was going home as I was leaving. One of the activity personnel pulled him back inside, physically.
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