Bugs

...several things to catch up on...

The antibiotic I was on last week (Amoxicillin 500mg 2 tabs t.i.d. x 10 d.) seemed to knock-out the sinus infection I had, and I felt great there for three or four days after I took the last dose.  Then I began to feel as if I were having a relapse — watery discharge from eyes, sore throat, body aches returning, and so forth. Yuk! The same thing happened to my husband and his doctor said that a second-run of antibiotics was in order for him.  So, I went back to my doctor and was given a second run of antibiotics, too (Amoxicillin/Clavulanic Acid 875mg-125mg 1 tab b.i.d. x 10 d.).  Hopefully this "bug" will be dead before long and won't bother me any more.

The nursing home tried calling Mom & Dad's house this morning a little after 6:00am but there was no answer, so, they called me instead.  (My mother and brother were probably still asleep and didn't hear the phone.)  The nurse reported that my father had vomited this morning and they had given him some Phenagrin^® to help with the nausea.  She said that a couple of other residents had thrown-up in the middle of the night, too, and they suspected that a "bug" was going around there as well.  She said they were required to call whenever something like that happened, though, and I am glad she did!

My brother was able to get some time-off work and traveled from his home in Texas to my parents' house this past weekend.  He is planning to stay for a week or so, and might even go back for another week later in the month.  He is visiting my Dad in the nursing home and helping Mom with a backlog of chores that have accumulated.  Bless his heart!  With Dad in the hospital when I was down there recently, Mom and I didn't have much time (or emotional energy) leftover for housework.  I did what I could to help out, though.

My brother and I had a long conversation last night about my parents.  Things that he is seeing/hearing this week, coupled with some things that I saw/heard when I was there, leads us to believe that we need to start keeping a much closer eye on Mom and Dad.  Sadly, they are getting to the point — given their age plus their current states of health — that even some of the simplest of household chores are becoming monumental for them.  We're thinking of contracting someone to come in and do some routine cleaning once per week (mopping floors, dusting furniture, etc.) to make things easier for them.  He and I plan to start checking on them a bit more intensively than we have been doing.

Getting old is The Sucketh!



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