Walk with Jacquie

Friday, March 30, 2018
I saw Jacquie at the skytrain station.  We walked together to the home.  She's in a motorized wheelchair and has trouble negotiating the uneven sidewalks and walkways.  With all the construction going on at the skytrain station, she has to take detours.
Mom was being toileted when I arrived at 4:35pm.  Hurray!  I pushed her in her wheelchair to join Donna at the dinner table.  Jacquie arrived and then Edward arrived being pushed in his walker.  He was all smiles.  Mom was served first.  I put the spoon in her food and she was able to feed herself with cueing.  Donna was having some difficulty so I chopped up her fish for her.  Donna sounded kind of phlegmy.  She still has her cold and she seems kind of disoriented.  She was having some trouble feeding herself, but she persevered.
I gave mom some orange sections from the orange I peeled for her.  She tried to stuff sections in her mouth before she had finished chewing the fibrous bits.  I had to make her wait.  It's funny that she used to spit out the membrane, but now she swallows it.  She ate most of her food.  I put the orange peels on her plate, but then she tried to put them on her spoon and eat that too.  I tried to explain that they were orange peels and not for eating.  She enjoyed her pudding and ate it herself.
After dinner, I took mom back to the room to brush her teeth, wash her face and toilet her. 
We looked at her photo book together. She always enjoys that.
I walked her back to Donna and seated her with Anka.