I returned late last week from Florida to find the fall in full swing! The days are cool, the evenings even cooler and the leaves are starting to change. What a difference from the 90 degree days of the past three weeks. The only sign of fall I saw down there was that the Sand Hill Cranes had started to return.
My father is still in acute rehab but he is getting better. He is physically getting stronger and with it, his dementia is fading. He is mostly in the present with just lapses of confusion. But, in talking about his situation with the case manager in his facility, it sounds like Dad’s insurer will release him this week and send him home. He is certainly not ready to live on his own just yet. We had expected him to be moved to a skilled nursing facility for a bit first but I am told now that that seems unlikely.
In the meantime, I didn’t want Dad to be alone in rehab for too long, so Robbie volunteered to go down for a while. She flew down yesterday. The idea was to have her visit him and monitor what the doctors were doing until he was ready to move to skilled. Now it looks like she will be there for his release. Glad we booked that trip. I hope my father will agree to come straight to Morristown upon his release. He can stay with us for a few weeks to regain more strength and to start working out a plan for whether he should move to some kind of assisted living. We also want to look into him permanently moving back north.
So I am now Mr. Mom for a while as Rob does the heavy lifting in Florida. I think she may be able to find some time to hit the beach, which would be a good reward for her. This weekend, I had the pleasure of getting to one of David’s football games. It was a beautiful fall Saturday morning for a home game on the high school’s fancy new field. The boys played exceptionally well for an easy 32-20 win, improving their season record to 3-1-1. Here’s a picture of David making a nice solo tackle!
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