Last Day of In-Home Therapy! – Thursday, February 15, 2018

Mom is officially getting the boot from in-home therapy today. The PT will be here in about 30 minutes for her final assessment. Mom has been doing well and I will miss the therapists that have been coming to see her, not to mention the convenience of having them come to us when it’s best for us.

Outpatient therapy will offer a lot more for her though. More equipment, different exercises, and a reason to get her out of the house. The difficult part is that we have to go by whatever is available, which means that she needs to get up and get going at a much more rapid pace than she’s used to. It also means that I need to make sure that I am actually available for each of her sessions since it requires me to drive her to there each time. It’s been really nice having the therapies at home. I could do what I need to while the caregiver is at home with mom – they just need to let the therapists in and I don’t have to be involved. We’re not sure what her new schedule will look like. We typically had therapy 4-5 days during the week, with just one discipline a day. It’s possible she may be on a similar schedule. That means that we’ll need to head into Leesburg everyday. If that’s what it takes of course that’s what we’ll do.

We had a slight medication change this week and it left her super tired yesterday. She was better this morning – I am hoping that overall she’s starting to normalize. I am curious to see what happens during her final assessment though. I suppose it really doesn’t matter though. Even if she doesn’t do much, they won’t keep her on the schedule for in-home services. The therapist that’s coming today will probably say that it’s due to a plateau and there’s not much more they can do for her anyway.

We’re trying to stay optimistic, but we definitely have our challenging days. Of course she has her “why bother” moments, especially when she’s bored and lonely. There’s only so much that I can do for her. I think she believes that one day she’ll wake up and everything will just magically work like it used to. The realization still hasn’t fully set in so she gets incredibly frustrated that she can’t do anything. I think if she were to accept the situation she might have an easier time trying to adapt to her new life. But what do I know…

The Valentine’s Day cards that she received were very nice and brightened her day. I’m really hoping that getting her into a new environment with new people and different equipment will motivate her a bit more. I know it’s not the same as when she used to go to Gold’s, but this is the best we can do for now.