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Kathy’s Caregiver Notes

August 5, 2009 - 7:44am 524 reads 0 comments

Following are caregiver notes from Kathy and Jan’s stay, July 26 to 30:

Jan and I drove from Salt Lake to St. George on Saturday to visit Jan’s brother and stay the night. We arrived in Phoenix Sunday night at about 9 p.m. Melissa was arriving at the CTCA directly from her trip to Laguna Beach. I talked to her on the phone and said we would see her in the morning. She had her girl friends take her directly to CTCA because she was feeling very nauseous and had a lot of pain. Wes got home late from a short weekend trip to Mexico with his guy friends. Jan and I set to cleaning up the condo and went to bed early.

Monday morning, Jan and I spent a good amount of time cleaning the condo and doing tons of laundry. I washed all the bedding, put on clean sheets and took care of the kitties. I made sure the kitties got fed, brushed, nails trimmed and litter cleaned.

Jan and I went over to CTCA at noon on Monday. Melissa was at an appointment to get X-rays so we went to a Thai restaurant nearby for lunch. The Thai place near Fry’s is pretty good.

When we saw Melissa she told us about her trip to Laguna with her girl friends. She was really excited to watch the surfing competitions.

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