Downward slide

Mom continues to decline. The new medication seems to be helping to increase her appetite. She has asked for a number of things to eat that she hasn't tried to eat in a while. The bad part is that she has been choking on almost everything she has asked for. There have been multiple time that I thought she might really choke. I could here the air whistling past whatever was lodged in her throat as she tried to catch her breath. Each time she would finally muster up a good cough and break it loose. So scary. Her speech has also been worse. More times than not she will give up trying to talk to me and say "never mind". The kids have been asking me what they should do, because they can't understand her when she talks to them. All I can say about her balance and gait is that in the last two days she has had four falls. Luckily none were bad enough to cause injury, but still scary. All of them happened because she just won't call for someone to help her get up.