My grandpa went back to his home
happily last week, after staying with us for about 4 months. He spent only
couple of days with us after discharged from the hospital and knowing his
desire we didn’t stop him going to his home but also felt this change or
transfer to his familiar environment could improve his health condition and the
thought of coming back to home will give him confident to do better. His back
sore due to confine to bed in the hospital is also healing well and he started
to have normal food like before but only he couldn’t stand and walk. But we
hope he regain the strength very soon and able to walk by doing physiotherapy.
I never thought a person could
change such drastically in a very short span, though I don’t want to refer directly
who he was, it certainly affects the lives of my grandparents now. My grandma
was in need of a helper to support her in taking care of grandpa. Until being
here, there doesn’t need someone as we (and my uncle family) supported her in
every way in taking care of the grandfather, the attitude of drop out from
their own son seems trouble them surely.
I feel that supporting someone is not that only physically assisting but giving
them hope to believe (if they are elders or disabled) that they are not alone
and even if you could not talk in a way, a small gesture and smile could do
much better.
Apart grandpa, I experience some
issues with health lately to put me feel trouble, though they aren’t anything
serious, at least now, I went for a respiratory functional test last week and
found poor breathing ability/capacity. I had some difficult with breathing last
week, which was very unusual for me and without any delay I check with my
doctor and took the functional test in Fortis Malar. It is a diagnosis
conducted only in big hospitals, because this kind of test are not taken
frequently by many and being an muscular dystrophy patient trouble with
breathing is a normal thing after certain period and the main cause for this is
believed to the severe lung infection I had 5 years back or due to some other
reason my lungs have been shrunken little to make inadequate breathing space. But
right now I have no trouble and I breathe easily but I am more careful to do my
breathing exercise regularly and increase in terms.
For the last few days, my back pain
takes new shape and shifts to my upper back to hold breath sometime. My therapist
suggests it is perhaps problem related to neck and was advice to sleep without
pillows and reduce my usage of laptop or change the position of viewing. To make
my problems little difficult my new wheelchair was sent back for rectification
and it expected to take more than a month (according to the manufacturer) to put
right things I needed. I had certain comfort in that bucket seat and nothing
felt painful when reclining towards its cushion back seat. Hope they haven’t
took much time to settle my wheelchair before things become more difficult.
