I was so lethargic yesterday I did nothing but throw my clothes over my pyjamas and buy some PBR Extra, my father's declining conditions have finally caught up with me. The hospice nurse will be over today with options ﹘he can no longer bear his own weight, much less operate a Foley catheter properly. #Stage4Alzheimers

Dad’s being fitted with a Foley by a nurse who looks like she just got out of junior high °°°Someone must’ve poked the weather with a stick because the sun is out °°°Year is off to a good start, everything considered. #Stage4Alzheimers

My brother and his wife are having lunch with our parents. Crucially they'll be taking in for themselves just how far Dad has gone downhill. (When he doesn't remember haven fallen, he doesn't remember the firemen. It's been several times in a row now.)
#Stage4Alzheimers

Welp, it's been a year. Adios 2022. I've been knitting my brain back together, #COVID wreaks havoc in slow motion, and my father proceeds from #Stage4Alzheimers.

Dad, alas, keeps falling. I.e. he collapses to the floor and can't get up and mother has to call the fire department. I've lost track of how many times this has happen in the past few days. He no longer recalls falling, or who the president is. Institutionalization is days away. #Stage4Alzheimers

Spoke with Pastor Helen (pseudonym) yesterday, and seeing my parents in their native habitat she was shocked by my father's decline. Nothing she hadn't seen before in her 25 years of ministry ﹘the ailing present well as far as they are able. ︒︒︒The hospice shower people show up today for the first time.︒︒︒Furthermore I'm seeing Pastor Heather in MY native habitat this afternoon.
#Stage4Alzheimers

The fire department had to come out for times recently, including #Xmas2022 Eve Eve & Christmas Eve, to get Dad safely off the floor. He can no longer retain new information. A segue to a care home or hospice is next. #Stage4Alzheimers

Much end-of-life discussion yesterday. Dad keeps falling.
#Stage4Alzheimers

Taking Dad to his "weekly" haircut was something of a trial. With #Stage4Alzheimers he has to be gently but constantly monitored and, to a great extent, managed. As with me you can't rely on things being done on automatic anymore... Today had no business being Friday... Today's useless #random number, though, is 982945472842560838880, and the #LicensePlates are TXINAK... P.S. I need someone who can inhale coffee with me...