Sunday, May 12, 2019

Nat is home. Another week spent in a behavioral health clinic, another round of meds changes. Here’s hoping things are better now. Beth and I were impressed with Memorial much more than with either of the other places she’s been; a psychiatrist actually took the time to talk with us about her and gave us a lot of insight. We were also hoping that they would see one of her episodes where she can’t stand up or control her limbs, and apparently they did. Beth and I drove all the way to South Bend every day last week, and spoke to her on the phone at the designated times every day as well. She was incredibly angry with us for leaving her there, at least at first, so much so that she had a big production for us “I begged you not to send me here,” “I never ask for anything,” and all that, and she didn’t believe us when we told her that we didn’t really have a choice. It ended with tears and “I don’t want to see you.” She’s scared that we’re going to leave her there or that we won’t want her any more, I think. The next few times we went to visit she seemed better, mostly she wanted to play Uno or color with us and she seemed cooled down. But we went back every day to make sure she saw us every day. She was discharged Saturday morning….In other news, the softball team had our first game of the season on Tuesday. We jumped all over the other team in the first inning but let it get away from us down the stretch, eventually losing 17-11. We played with 8 players so took an out in the 9th spot until a friend of one of the Swihart kids joined us for a few innings. Losing our MVP from last year hurts us….. We went shopping for Mother’s day today, once again at Menard’s for flowers. Beth’s present is more work for her but she likes planting flowers in the front yard so that’s kind of her thing. I also went to visit Mom again today, not much change. She was lying in bed, awake mostly but also nodding off several times, just looking around a bit with no recognition of anything or anyone.