Mom Update, July 26, 2010, Monday

Mom had a great few days...

First, I forgot to mention that the doctor who met with dad on Friday said that he doesn't want mom to be shook to become alert anymore. He said it could be dangerous (even though the doctors at North Shore did this). So remember not to shake her at all anymore.

Yesterday, Sunday, Mom's choir from church came to sing to her. Dad and Lenny and Terry were with mom and they said that the choir even brought a keyboard. They said mom moved her head and feet and arm during the singing and seemed to really enjoy it. Dad said they sang for 2 hours...I wish I could have seen mom as they sang to her. I began to cry when dad told me about it...and I couldn't help but think, "How could the workers in the rehab center not see how special mom is...how much she is loved...how wonderful she is..." What a blessing this was...not only to mom but I am sure to all the other patients in her wing. To any and all of you in her choir who may be reading this now...I thank you from the bottom of my heart. We all do.

Dad said that the nurse told him this morning, Monday, that when she entered mom's room this morning, mom's eyes were wide open!! And for a while too. Then, around 2:00 or so, dad said that mom opened her eyes for him as well.

When I arrived this evening at 7:45, I did mom's Physical therapy, combed her hair, kissed her, massaged her hand (right one has some edema again) and then I played her IPOD with the ear buds --- I let her listen to Phantom of the Opera...She bopped to the music as usual (feet moving, toes moving, right arm and hand moving, head too) and during the songs (45 minutes), mom opened her eyes for 1 - 1 1/2 minutes at a time with 10-20 minute breaks (eyes closed) in between...she kept this up for 45 minutes!! She was still alert when I left at 9:05!!

Maybe she is waking finally...I pray so.

Psalm 139
For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
1 O LORD, you have searched me
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.

3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.

4 Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O LORD.

5 You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.

7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?

8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, [a] you are there.

9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,

10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.

11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,"

12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.

13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;