Getting Back to Abnormal

Mary’s foot keeps hurting her and no one knows why. I certainly don’t. The two toes still have sores on them. They don’t’ seem to be getting any worse or any better. The podiatrist said they would be slow to heal because she has poor circulation in that foot. Is that why it hurts??? One of the home health nurses put a special bandage (Duoderm) on it, which they’ve used before for her bedsores on her rear end. However, I was a bit wary about that. On one hand, it seemed like a good idea because it’s made to cushion the sore place and then to fall off when the scab heals. On the other hand, the podiatrist said to not put anything on it and just let the scabs dry out and heal. I ended up taking the Duoderm off because Mary was complaining so very much about her toes hurting. I guess I couldn’t stand not being able to see what was hurting her, even if I couldn’t do anything about it. It looked like the skin around one of the sores was, I don’t know, blistering or something, so I felt pretty good at that time for taking the Duoderm off. I just don’t know! Also, I think because she so rarely feels any pain, when she does, either it must be pretty bad or else she’s just a real baby about it.

I think maybe she’s slowly getting back to her normal self. She’s still not drinking much coffee, which sounds like a good thing, but that’s definitely not normal, so it concerns me. I gave her a hot toddy again because I just didn’t feel like dealing with her not sleeping again. I think it’s been working pretty good thus far, but the night is still young!

I have this feeling that she’s also getting a bit stir crazy and if we could just get out of the house, say go shopping (one of her favorite things to do), she’d feel better. But it’s just been too cold.