Grandpa visits the doctor

We took him for his annual physical last month. His doctor is a very kind, capable internist that I have known through his patient referrals to surgery for many years. It's important to have a good consistent relationship with a physician of record, so that if Grandpa ever needs a hospitalization for something like a hip fracture, the internist can help coordinate his care.

We were concerned that Gpa had been getting very restless at night, getting up to change his clothes, go through his drawers, rearrange everything in the room, even venture outside to check on the moon. Dr Thibert recommended going to a higher dose of Aricept, as this could help with the agitation that drives night wakenings. Now that it has had a chance to work in his system, it's had the desired effect and Gpa is sleeping much better. Also, putting him in Depends was a good idea as they are wet in the morning, meaning that Gpa would be having accidents without them and getting up to change clothes and bedsheets all night.

While waiting for the doctor, Gpa looked at the eye-chart without his glasses on and reported "My eyes are starting to do bad things". So Vince asked him to put his glasses back on and voila! a magical cure of the 'bad things'. Gpa laughed at the result.

At the visit, when Dt Thibert asked him how he was feeling, Gpa replied "I'm feeling cute!"