Gram had a very agitated day yesterday. For 12 hours I spent most of the time in the room with her, trying to help her stay calm. We tried extra medication with only minimal success. She felt she was in a car, and the kids were on bicycles on the freeway going too fast. Then we were lost in the car, and she felt we needed to call the police. After several calls to Hospice and extra medication and a lot of assistance, she finally fell asleep. She woke up three hours later and started talking again. That time at least she was less stressed. Apparently she was having a gathering/party. We heard her singing for at least half and hour. There was something about "happy house" to the tune of Happy Birthday, then I heard her gathering "the boys and girls together" for more singing.

Today she has been understandably wiped out. She has slept all day, with little to no interaction. For the first time she has not stayed awake long enough even to eat or drink anything. Due to other complications, we also ended up putting in a foley catheter to help her stay more comfortable. She had been feeling like she needed to go but was unable to do so for the last 24 hours preceding our placement of the catheter. We now have additional medications if they're needed, but we'll see what the next few days hold. We'll keep you all posted.

PS- The above pics are from our Christmas get-together, we couldn't quite get everybody in the pic all at once. Too much baby chaos.