Ups and downs

My grandmother we found out just recently has vascular dementia on top of FTD. So that was rough news for the family. She's also started to move more into the aphasia stage having more episodes of low intelligibility. I work as a SLPA so have training and can work around it, but others are having a harder time.

Today though my grandmother's regular worker came back from a short medical leave. We had to fire the substitute worker and lodge a complaint, something I hate doing. When her regular worker came back it was the happiest I've seen my grandmother in a while, she was so excited to see her and ask about her trip.

Another down is her catheter keeps getting clogged and causing emergency nurse calls late at night to get it flushed.

Another up though is she's successfully reffered to a day program that's $15 a day and she's excited to go. Her husband said he'd join her too.