The spy who loves her

Mission accomplished....well mostly. I had already set up the Blink camera  app on my phone and synced the camera to the "module" (the little part that plugs in), so when I got to mom's I just needed to plug the module in and then update it to work off her wi-fi. She went into her bathroom to see what things she might need at the store, so that gave me the opportunity to get it plugged in. Then I quickly moved her dining chair over to the kitchen cabinet so I could stand on it to set the camera up on top.

With the apartment living/kitchen/dining being so small my view is limited to basically half the room on the other side. I did have a little piece of cloth with me to set under the back side of the little camera so I could tilt it a bit down, which helped some. But I can't see her standing right at her sink or sitting in her recliner, which is a bummer. My only other option would be to stick it on a wall, but I'm afraid she would really notice that. Or I could try adding a 2nd camera, I suppose. Attach it to underneath her tv stand shelf, then I'd see her kitchen and recliner.  Just a thought, but probably not necessary.

I tired her out yesterday, taking her to Arby's for lunch and then we stopped at Walgreens for several things for her. Recently I was reading something about how those with dementia get to the point they can't process something like a menu. I've noticed that for a couple years now. The article said they will just ask the person they are with what they are having and pick that. That's what she always does. Then I asked her what she wants to drink and she of course hesitates and says "oh I don't know..." I said does a milkshake sound good? I did then ask her chocolate or vanilla and she chose. 

When we got back to her apartment she was pretty worn out. I went and got her laundry out of the dryer and put it away while she sat in her recliner to rest. She's back to thinking this is a different recliner. With all the activity of trying to get the laundry taken care of, getting the camera hooked up on the sly, etc, I totally screwed up and left the dang little cup of extra pills (one's she's missed taking over the past 10 days) sitting on her desk. Crap crap crap. I was so mad at myself. Now I'll spend every evening call with her, when I get her to dispense and take her pills, with her asking "I have these extra pills in a cup?" The previous few days I tried to get her to put them in a drawer so they'd be out of sight and mind, but never could get her to actually do it.

I'm pretty sure she napped in her recliner most of the afternoon after I left. There were no notifications of movement until after 4pm. I checked in on the camera every so often and she was watching tv/news. It was kind of neat to be on the phone with her at 6 and actually see her take the pills, LOL. But every evening I have to explain to her "yes, I want you to take the pills while we are on the phone". At one point I could tell the pill dispenser was flashing red where the cup goes. She had that dang clear cup in there again. But it was helpful that I could see what is going on with it and I could see she took them.

She didn't watch tv much after that. I couldn't tell what she was doing, no movement other than walking into her bedroom twice. It appears she went to bed about 7:45. The odd thing was she took something (shoes? slippers?) and put them in between her partially closed bedroom door and the door frame. Not sure what that was about. The door will stay put in any position. 

When it got dark the camera then didn't want to work with infrared. I could barely see the room, the picture kind of had a halo over it. From reading it sounds like because the camera is sitting on a light/bright surface, the infrared light is reflecting off it back into the camera. The top of that cabinet is white laminate. It's working fine again now in regular daylight. I'm going to take something dark to lay across the top under the camera next visit and see if that helps so that the night vision works.

She appeared to get up around 6:30 to adjust her heat. This camera also senses the temperature. After she did that it went up to 84. No wonder I'm dying when I go in her apartment and she's always asking are you cold? NO, I'm sweating, LOL. Then it appears she went back to bed and got up about 7:40 and adjusted her heat again. Now it says 80. Not sure if she went back to bed or what. What about breakfast at 8? I have yet to figure out how the residence know what meals are to be eaten downstairs and which meals they bring the meals up. Like breakfast yesterday was brought to their apt's. But lunch was down in the dining room. She is either back in bed or in her bathroom getting ready. All's I can see is just into her room and a corner of her dresser on the other side of it. Her bed is to the left and the bathroom to the right of the doorway.

I got home about 2:45 with my load of groceries. I had ordered a lemon, to make this dessert recipe dd had given me, but no lemon. I took a nap and then got dh some dinner. I was still full from the arby's beef n cheddar, fries and mint chocolate milk shake.

Then I checked my emails. Ok, this is interesting. It's from someone at my mom's investment company saying her investment guy is no longer with the company. They will continue to serve her account with care, blah blah. I wonder what that is all about. The guy was about 60 and I know he has been grooming his son to take over his place, the past couple of years. If he had decided to retire they certainly would have said that or said ok, now son is the main guy.  I don't know if this will be a good thing or a bad thing! I've certainly been annoyed at how he handled what my mom wanted to do with taking uncle off getting 30% and then practically insisting my step siblings deserved half of all the money. I have also been expecting a call last week from his assistant to set up the quarterly phone call, which would be due next week, so that explains why that didn't happen. That's ok, I find them annoying anyway, LOL. Just invest/manage how you always have, I don't need to approve what he's buying/selling recommending. Plus, he's like overly nice and it comes across as really condescending, almost fake nice. But, hey, he'd been doing my parents investments for 30 years and did a good job, so I wasn't interested in rocking the boat. I supposed I should call this new person on Monday and see what scoop I can get.