When Claudia got to mom this morning, she was out like a light, so she did mom's physical therapy with her. She couldn't wake her up, she was in a deep sleep. When the physical therapist got there, he said he would come back later when mom was awake and would try her like around 9. Claudia said that mom had the wrong diaper on again this morning as well.
When Anthony went to see mom today, she was looking at a magazine while sitting in her chair. When Anthony tried to talk to her, she wouldn't look at him but he kept on talking and then she fell asleep. He let her sleep and she didn't sleep long and was happy when she woke up. They started playing with the clothespins on the cup together and mom placed them on the edge of the cup. They talked as she did this and she laughed when Anthony put them on his nose, ears...he left for a minute and when he came back, she was laughing because she tried to put one on her nose too. They looked at magazines and laughed at the pictures. Then the 2 respiratory people came in and Anthony had a clothespin on his nose, not realizing they were in the room. Mom laughed at this initially, but when she saw that they were coming to her, she wouldn't do anything. One of them asked her to say, "Hi" to him but mom wouldn't do it and averted her eyes. Anthony said, "Mom look at me, they want to help you so you have to do what they say." Then, much to the amazement of the 2 therapists, mom said, "Hi." Anthony made a snowflake from the paper and scissors while they were cutting and told mom to say that she did it when the next batch of therapists came in and she laughed and laughed. While the respiratory people were in the room assessing mom, one therapist said to lower the vent during the day and raise it during the night. He said this would be a major step in the right direction with mom. The head respiratory guy said no at first but the other guy tried to convince him to do it and then they agreed it would be a good thing to do. When the therapists were ready to leave, one asked her to grab his hand and mom wouldn't do it at first. Then Anthony said to do it because they want to help her and she did it again. The therapists were very impressed by her cognitive ability. Anthony said he needed to go to work soon and would have to leave soon and mom said, "What time?" Anthony left mom with the clothespins and the cup. He asked her if she wanted more magazines and she said, "OK."
When Claudia came back to see mom later in the afternoon, dad was there and mom was in a mood. They put her back to bed and when Claudia and dad came into the room she was happy. Claudia made her laugh a lot! she tried to get mom to lift her leg for dad but she wouldn't do it. Mom laughed as dad modeled lifting his leg. They did paper clips on a piece of paper. They did dot to dots. Mom is very hap hazard with drawing lines out of order. Then they did the IPAD. They did the game that shows you words with the letters out of order and they tell you what to spell. She tried very hard to move the letters into place. She has a hard time isolating her pointer finger but was independent for a few letters. One of the words was "help" and Claudia said, "help! My daughter is making me spell!" She cracked up so much she turned red! It held her attention for a long time. She played memory on the IPAD and was independent. She didn't use any type of logic to find the matches but this also held her attention. She also tried very hard to write the numbers in the math game. The IPAD ran out of battery so they switched to something else. They then read the "All about Me" book. She turned the pages independently. They also put the buttons through the slit in the container. She then fell asleep for a while. When she woke up Claudia read "Olivia" to her. She chose the book over her magazine. When Claudia left mom, she said that mom still wanted her bed table and the magazines---she made a face and motioned by putting her arm over the table when Claudia tried to put it away.
Lenny and I went to put mom to bed tonight. We stayed and watched TV with her for a while and talked too. She kept putting her left pointer finger to her lips to tell me to be quiet many times! She also raised her right arm way up high over her head at one point too. She answered some yes/no questions. When it was time for bed, we put the bed table away and I had given mom a Reader's Digest abbreviated book earlier and she held it tightly now. We gave her some stuffed piggies, the book, and a warm blanket. We tucked her in and said prayers and she told us she loved us and waved good-bye!
"I will put my trust in him." Hebrews 2:13
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