3/13--3-17 Couldn't travel

Zac and Kendra brought Breah over to see Great Grampa Friberg. He appreciated seeing her althgouth he didn't recognize Linda or Kendra and i'm not sure about Zac. But he did light up to see the Baby and i think he appreciated it as Zac's, as we had been talking about it quite a bit. It is getting hard to tell when he is on and when he is off, as far as appreciateing current reality as the rest of us experience it. We sang some hynms which was great blessing to him. When we were finished he by then had morphed the time together so he thought we were in a church service or convention of some sort. I'm again forgetful of what he said but there was no mistaking what he was experiencing. He often has been in this mode when i go to leave him. Today is a beautiful warm afternoon so i thought i would take him for a drive and get some ice cream. I found him sitting on the footstool of his recliner--but he was on the floor and it was tipped up on the back end. Visualize a recliner fully reclined and then push the leg rest down to the floor without first retracting the leg rest; the whole chair tips forward. That is how it was, with Dad's butt on the sitting half on the leg rest and half on the floor. He was not experiencing any distress but was confused and talking and praying about the car, the church and needing to pick up someone on the way to the restaraunt, something they would have done at district assembly . Tanya and i rectified the chair situation and i offered for us to go for a ride. He thought that was a good plan so i tried to put on his shoes but his feet we too swollen, so i put some slippers on him. (Zac, i pushed on his swollen foot above the toes and the detent the size of my thumb print remained for at least 45 seconds, when i quit looking and put his sock on. Isn't that called capilary fill or refill? Anyway, i didn't think it good that it took so long to fill. Tanya said the hospice nurse note that on her last visit and reported his doc.) Once i got socks and slippers on, with no little effort we helped him stand and started to head out of his room but could not get him to go on out of his room, even though he re-affirmed that he wanted to go on a ride. He said i should bring the car up! He litterally would not step across the threshold from his room out into the other room. I eventually suggested we sit for a bit and then we had a challenge getting him to go back to his chair and even more difficulty getting him to turn around so he could sit. He wanted to begin sitting as soon as i said, "Here's your chair." We eventually, manually turned him around and got his settled in his recliner. Tayna said he sometimes will not cooperate at all like that but if she leaves him, in 10 or 20 minutes he will be out shuffling around on his own! All of that to say, i doubt if we'll be able to take him out for rides to church or anything else any more. He will need to be carried out in a stetcher if he needs to go out, i'm guessing. I thought we would get him in a wheelchair, and then see if he could follow commands to get into the car. But this exercise demonstrated to me that we won't be doing that. Sad day! Well, best go. Merv