Today the nurses aid came to help Mom. Unfortunately she was unable to do anything other than a meet and greet. Kim was able to meet with her and offered to show her the ropes. Kim said she seemed very nice and Mom and Dad both like her. She will be able to help Mom dress and get cleaned up in the mornings of Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. This will be a big help to Dad.
The nurse also came to visit Mom. She will visit 3 times this week and next week in order to determine a baseline of her health. She had a nice talk with Kim afterwards and answered a few questions about Mom's kidney functions. She has Stage 4 CKD and are only working at approximately 29 percent.
Mom also had a visit from Pastor Bill, the Hospice chaplain. They had a nice visit. He said he may try to turn Mom's case over to the former chaplain who is Catholic. Regardless, Bill was still planning on visiting Mom and Dad to help them spiritually and emotionally at least a couple of times a month.
Kim was very glad that we only live four houses away because she made several trips up and down the street to meet all of these people. She will go down there tomorrow to help show the aid where everything is and how she has been helping Mom. We all went down there this evening and visited while the boys raced their scooters and bicycles up and down the driveway. Fortunately we only had one bad crash and a skinned up shoulder.
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