Update on Grandma's Condition

I saw Grandma last on June 5 during the evening before I had to go to work that night.  I stayed with her for about half an hour to an hour.  When I got there, she was asleep, but I woke her up so that I could talk with her.

The last time I saw her before that was May 22.  At that time, she made some incredible improvements in a short amount of time.  She had been given a swallowing test and was able to swallow water thickened with pudding and water thickened with honey.  Since then she has not been able to go on up to more difficult things to swallow.  She also looked much better and was more alert than she had been before.

On a daily basis, the nursing staff make sure that she sits in her recliner each day and help her shift positions.  As well, physical therapists help her to regain movement in her body.

When I saw her on June 5 she was able to move her left hand and fingers more easily than before, and with a little help she was able to move her left leg.  I did a few exercises with her which helped prompt some of the movement in her leg.

Grandma recognizes everyone that she should.  Unfortunately she doesn't have any short-term memory.  That evening she was asking me how long she had been bedridden and then asked a similar question a little later on.  She doesn't exactly know where she is still, but she knows she's in Livingston.  Sometimes her answers don't make sense on her whereabouts.  She also doesn't really know when it is; she thinks that she is approximately 80-90 years old, but didn't know how old I was.  That is an improvement from before because she used to think it was 1958 and she was in Denver, Colorado (by the way, she was in Gardiner in 1958).

She still has a feeding tube fitted to her stomach, but at least she is getting some nutrition.

I wish she would get better faster; I know that after about six months, there won't be much more she can regain.  When we admitted her to Evergreen Livingston, the nursing staff thought that she might be able to go back home in three months.  It's been two months since she had her stroke, and I don't see enough improvement to continue thinking that she will be able to go back home in a month without God's help.

I've been regularly praying for Grandma's healing.  With God anything is possible (Mat. 19:26).  Jesus' last act when he died on the cross was to raise many dead people from their graves during an earthquake (Mat. 27:51-52).  Jesus healed many sick people while he was on Earth, and he still does now that he has ascended.