When I called mom yesterday she sounded tired, and said that "it hasn't been a good month." She's been very fatigued, and she mentioned how much it bugs her that she can't lean over without having an unpleasant sensation in her head due to her heart not pumping efficiently.
When she answered the phone this afternoon I could immediately tell that she was still worn out. She said that yesterday her neighbors had made a trip to Costco in Medford, and they had picked up some stuff for her. This morning her neighbor called her and said that she was worried because mom didn't look good. There had been about 6 inches of snow overnight and mom was out of wood on her back porch. Mom said that she had made one trip out to try to get wood, but then realized that "it isn't for me anymore." She actually acknowledged that it is more than she can do to get the tarp off her back woodpile and stock wood onto the back porch.
Shortly after that, her neighbor showed up and shoveled the snow off mom's steps and up to her car, and brushed the snow off her car. Mom hadn't been up to her mailbox since last Friday (3 days), so he brought down all her accumulated mail and newspapers.
He told mom about a guy who had been doing some work with another neighbor, and said that this man might be able to do some snow shoveling and stack wood on the porch. So after he left, mom made a phone call and the other neighbor brought this man over to introduce him to mom.
He ended up shoveling the snow off mom's front deck, and then shoveling a path over to the back woodpile and replenishing the wood on her back porch. She said that she was astounded when she went to look because he had stacked it higher than she had ever seen it! She said that she couldn't even see over the top of it! Mom actually has a bunch of wood stacked on her side deck near the wood stove, but she wants to save that "for when I REALLY don't feel good." So anyway she was very happy to have a good supply of wood on the back porch, and she built herself a fire (and commented that the furnace just isn't as warm as the wood stove). It gives you a clue about how fatigued she was this morning that she didn't even feel like building a fire.
She also had another neighbor come down to plow out her driveway and she was starting to head outside to go move her car, but he got her to just give him the keys so he could move it for her. Thank goodness for kind people who take care of a tired (but stubborn) 85 year old!
Mom said that she might go into town tomorrow because Kubach wants her to have a blood test sometime prior to her next appointment on Dec 16th. His assistant Glenda wants mom to have it sooner rather than later because Glenda suspects that mom might be getting anemic again, and that might account for her continuing fatigue. That makes a lot of sense... the last time mom was so fatigued, she was anemic, and when they finally got that under control she felt a LOT better. But tomorrow might not be the best day to go into town...mom said that it is continuing to snow, and she said that she doesn't feel any urgency, she will just play it by ear and see how conditions are tomorrow.
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