My brother was a little aggravated this Saturday when I took him out to breakfast with my daughter. He let us know he had had an "accident", in other words, he had had diarrhea. He also choked on his food a bit, this is the third Saturday in a row.
I called the nursing home the next day to see if he still had diarrhea. They said no. I am watching this carefully because if he has intestinal problems and throws up, he can get pneumonia caused by not clearing his lungs. Also, he can get dehydrated pretty easily, which throws him into bad afib.
So far, so good, though.
We had an interesting exchange. Somehow we were talking about someone who was a "lefty" and my daugther asked him what that meant to him. He thought for a minute, and then said, "one word: freedom".
My brother's intellectual abilities always amaze me. He could throw out that abstract idea, but when asked to further develop what he was trying to say, he was completely stalled, he could not elaborate.
The brain is amazing part of the human body.
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