9/30/2009
September 30, 2009Dad wasn’t doing bad this morning. In fact, except for a couple of days Dad has actually been fair.
The couple of days were probably due to a death. His godson’s brother passed away last week I believe from cancer. I think he was 47 years old. I know he wanted to go to the funeral but that would have been too complicated. Since I don’t drive we would have had to depend on Access-a-ride which is normally a nightmare. You never know when they are going to be late. In fact LAST year when his aunt (my great-aunt) passed away, the funeral was in Brooklyn (we are in the Bronx) and we waited about 90 minutes for the ride. The funeral was over at 12. We asked for a 1:00 pick-up and they got there at 1:45 on the first day it actually started getting cold in New York. That was a Friday. The next day I had to put Dad in the hospital for pneumonia.
The city bus is no option.
We could have taken a taxi in both directions despite the price but ultimately we ended up not going.
In addition to the travel I thought the stress would have been too much for him. he was already a little ….different after he heard about the death. He seemed pre-occupied. It’s bad enough he is obsessed about death. He buys the daily News and the Amsterdam and the first page he goes to is the obituary page.
Now aside from that I am concerned about dad’s blood pressure. It fluctuates too much. I have seen it very low and now for the past few days it has gone up 10 201/100 before dropping to 161/80. He is taking five mg of Lisinopril now but I will take him back to the VA on Monday to let the doctor know if the pressure continues like this.
The couple of days were probably due to a death. His godson’s brother passed away last week I believe from cancer. I think he was 47 years old. I know he wanted to go to the funeral but that would have been too complicated. Since I don’t drive we would have had to depend on Access-a-ride which is normally a nightmare. You never know when they are going to be late. In fact LAST year when his aunt (my great-aunt) passed away, the funeral was in Brooklyn (we are in the Bronx) and we waited about 90 minutes for the ride. The funeral was over at 12. We asked for a 1:00 pick-up and they got there at 1:45 on the first day it actually started getting cold in New York. That was a Friday. The next day I had to put Dad in the hospital for pneumonia.
The city bus is no option.
We could have taken a taxi in both directions despite the price but ultimately we ended up not going.
In addition to the travel I thought the stress would have been too much for him. he was already a little ….different after he heard about the death. He seemed pre-occupied. It’s bad enough he is obsessed about death. He buys the daily News and the Amsterdam and the first page he goes to is the obituary page.
Now aside from that I am concerned about dad’s blood pressure. It fluctuates too much. I have seen it very low and now for the past few days it has gone up 10 201/100 before dropping to 161/80. He is taking five mg of Lisinopril now but I will take him back to the VA on Monday to let the doctor know if the pressure continues like this.
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