Birthday Boys!

This will be a 2 part blog today. It is 10:33 am.

I had a thought in the night that perhaps CP's confusion was med related. Reid spoke with the doctor this morning and he said the he believes this is just the progression of the Alzheimer's. The confusion upon waking is typical of the progression of the disease.

Will write more later today.

It's 9:45 pm and part 2.

Nancy said that they had a good day. She took CP to Sheridan's for ice cream and then they walked arond the pet store and looked at the animals.

We went out to dinner at Granite City. CP and I shared a Bedda Chedda Burger and fries. He was very fixated on his meal. He divided all of his french fries into groups of three and dipped them in ketchup. After a while he changed and made them all groups of 4. When he had about 12 fries left he took the onions off of his hamburger and spent about 5 minutes cutting them up, he then spread ketchup on the onions. Next, he proceeded to dip his french fries into the ketchup and onions, when the fries were gone he at the ketchup onions. He took about 3-4 bites of his burger and said he was full. The waitress brought out a dessert for his birthday, a large chocolate chip cookie (the size of a dinner plate) with and ice cream scoop on top and a candle. He got all excited about having dessert and we gave him the ice cream so I could start cutting up the cookie. He ate 3-4 bits of the ice cream and then started cutting his burger up into small slices and dipping it into the ice cream. Reid finally said, "I'm full that was a big burger" and CP said I'm stuffed too and started eating again. So we decided that he thought he had to finish everything on his plate before we could leave so we both stood up and he just followed our lead.

In the car he was confused. Reid told him that when we got home we neended to give him his dinner meds. He said that he only takes them two times a day so he would just wait until morning. Reid said, "Pop your meds are at the house and we will get them when we get home." CP said, "I can get them tomorrow when I go home." Reid said, "Pop you live with us now." CP said, "Oh, I thought I was just visiting. That's right, I live with you now in your basement."

While laying in bed Reid and I were talking about the day. We both also noticed that CP wasn't using his right arm very much either. When he talked to the doctor earlier in the day we were both at work and so we didn't really have a chance to talk about what he had said. The CT scans show 2 TIA's. We have a follow-up appointment on Tuesday so will ask more questions about it then.