My name is Dan and I'm writing this blog to document the journey my Mother and I are taking with a little know disease called PSP (Progressive Supranuclear Palsy). It is also known as Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Another Scare, but OK
Well, its 4:30AM, and moms got me a nervous wreck. For whatever reason I woke up at almost 4AM, I think I may have heard mom on the monitor. I look over at the little screen on the nightstand, and I see moms legs hanging off the side of the bed. From what I can tell from the little night vision camera, she is trying to reach her glasses. I'm thinking to myself "Shes going to get her glasses and look at the clock and go back to bed". She continues to fumble around for a few minutes, and I'm hoping if she needs something she'll press the pager button. No, she shoots up to her feet, swaying, and reaching for her walker, that I know is a good 5 feet away from the bed because that's where I put it when I helped her get in bed. So the second I see her feet hit the ground I am up, sprinting down the hall, hurtling the laundry basket like I'm in the Olympics. I get in moms room just as shes leaning forward toward her walker. I let out a sigh of relief. I thought for sure I would be too late and we would have another fall. She tells me shes going to the bathroom, and doesn't know why she didn't call. As much as she was swaying and stumbling, I'm certain she would have fallen. I put her back to bed, and now I'm going to attempt to go back to sleep.
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