Well, the bruising looks even worse after the passage of a couple of days. It’s hard to tell in this photo, but her whole forehead is green and the bruising goes well up beyond her hairline. I touched her head today and she definitely responded – it hurt.

Aside from looking awful, she was in a pretty good mood. Was very happy to see me, quite expressive, and chattering away. I’ll definitely take that. She drank an Ensure and had a bowl of ice cream while I was there.

I read over the log book, and it seems as though those two nights she ate dinner were somewhat of a fluke. She’s still doing much better than she was when she wasn’t eating anything at all, but she’s far from being back to “normal.”

She loves the Ensure, though, and has a couple of those each day. In addition, she’ll eat some ice cream, toast, fruit, jello, crackers, and so forth. So, she’s not breaking any records, but she’s getting enough to keep her going, and she really does sleep the majority of the day.

We’ll see what the coming week holds. I’m praying for dull, boring, and uneventful!

For some reason, these last couple of weeks seem to have sucked the wind right out of my proverbial sails. I’m beat. Laid down on the couch around 8pm last night and slept until 9:30 this morning. Restless sleep, but sleep none the less.

I’d been looking forward to driving to Butler after work yesterday to visit with my dad, but Mom took a pretty nasty fall in the wee hours of Thursday morning, and I just didn’t feel comfortable leaving. She literally looks like she has a broken nose; complete with swelling and two black eyes, but oddly (and thankfully) there is no pain at all. We have poked, prodded, and twisted, and she just looks at us and laughs. I pinched her lightly just to confirm that she does still recognize pain and she yelped, so I don’t know how in the world that nose couldn’t be hurting like hell, but I’m glad it isn’t.

It took several hours for the swelling and bruising to appear, so I figured I would rather just stick around this weekend in case something odd happens and it gets worse.

We talked Thursday evening, and decided a baby monitor might be a good idea since she has been sleeping in her room more (for a long time, she spent all night in the living room). This is actually the second recent “injury” that has occurred overnight. At least with the monitor, the night girls will know when she is stirring.

In the meantime, I told her all we need is a pair of boxing gloves and she’ll be ready for Halloween…. (((sigh))).