Saw the doctor yesterday and adjusted medications again. Cut back on one, increased another and found out I can give him his sleeping med mixed with some pudding, because swallowing the capsule has become next to impossible. Then found out the hard way that he needs to go to bed immediately after taking his medication that way... for some reason last night, he decided to sit and watch TV for half an hour AFTER he took them. And then ended up falling in the bathroom, which he says he has no memory of. Of course.. he might just be hoping if I think he didn't fall I'll let him go on a walk alone. That ain't gonna happen.

In the meantime, moving ahead more quickly with project to convert current living room into a bedroom for Glen, current dining room into a new family room. Dining room table headed to storage.. won't be its first time there.

Greetings all. Haven't updated for a while in part because things have been rather levelled off, and partly because Katie's brain has been kind of.. well.. mushified.

Anyway.. first off let me thank those who have gone out of their way to help out. All the ladies from church who have brought dinners, giving me a couple of nights off from cooking. Steve and Susan who stopped by not only with food, but took the time to go for Glen's walk with him. And John.. who will just come and hang out with Glen giving me desperately needed time off. Love you all bunches!!

Glen took a fall last night.. he'd gotten up to feed the dogs. (He's never stopped feeding them at 4:30 am, which is when he fed them while he was working. We've told him they'll wait till a more reasonable time.. but.. well.. it's what he does.) I heard a thud.. not sure exactly what happened but I found him on the floor at the bottom of the stairs. Luckily Kev hadn't left for work, so he helped me get Glen up and we had him sleep downstairs in his recliner. Interestingly, he seems a fair piece clearer this morning. Somewhat easier to have conversations with. (on a conversation with Glen scale, not a usual scale) So I have a theory.. after the fall, he slept on the recliner, with his head elevated. He didn't cough as much and I think slept better. So.. we may be looking to get a recliner for the bedroom. Whatever works!

Not much new going on really. Met with the psychiatrist who added another medication while cutting back on one he was already taking. Doesn't really seem to be making a huge amount of difference. But then.. I guess we don't really know what he'd be like without it either. It gets a little tense around dinner time when every 3 minutes he wants to crate the dogs... long before dinner is ready. Brain doc said that kind of patterning is what she'd expect... he can't sequence, but gets into patterns with certain behaviors or phrases. On the other hand.. far dissimilar to something like Alzheimers .. his memory is great for the most part: recognizes people, can recite our phone number, Kev's and my cell phone numbers, plenty of sports trivia.

Had a lot of friends step up to the plate this week: church friends are bringing dinners twice a week, John came by and spent some time with Glen this morning.. I kept thinking of all the things I could do.. then distinctly heard my grief counsellor's voice in my head saying "you need time to just BE!" So I went to Starbucks, had breakfast, read the paper, caught up with my e-mail... it was lovely. I knew Glen was going to be a little difficult to deal with.. he gets that way after a change in routine.. but it was great for me, and I'm going to try to do that on a more regular basis. And we heard from our friends Susan and Steve who are going to try to stop by some time for a visit. If nothing else it gives me a chance at real conversations!