A touch of pneumonia...

Dad's cold got progressively worse on the weekend. When I was there on Tuesday evening, a doctor came by and said Dad most likely had a touch of pneumonia. He was given some antibiotics the day before, and it would take three days before he would see improvement. One of the results of the antibiotics is diarrhea. I remember this from Daughter's few illnesses. I was helping Mom with Dad in the bedroom, when he said he had to pee. He was so week that getting him to the bathroom wasn't an option. We used the urinal bottle instead. Dad said he was done, but he hadn't done anything. Mom asked if he wanted to try again. He said yes. Except he then said "I pooed". It was everywhere, diarrhea. On the bed, on his pants, on the floor. It took the two of us half an hour to clean up. There was atleast 5 loads of laundry to do. I never expected to have to clean up my parent. But things have changed in the last year. Things are very different.