I started the day with mom. She was asleep when I arrived. i washed her face, combed her hair and put her hearing aids in her ears. She woke up and was happy to see me. I set her up for the day with a magazine on her lap desk and the TV on channel 7. I told her I had to drive out to Springs today and she made a face and said, "Wow!" I gave ehr a kiss and started my day.
Lenny and Kathy went to see mom and mom had a shower and mom went to PT. When Kathy got there Anthony, Anthony Michael, Sam, Pop and mom’s friends were there. Kathy was teasing her and kidding around and said, “Hey Mom, alright so ya want to do some work?” and mom said, “No! Stop it!”
Anthony came to see mom with Anthony Michael and Sam. She was in PT when they got there. She was wide-awake and happy to see her. She wouldn’t hold the cards right and kept spreading them out on the table. It held her attention. She tried to talk a lot but they couldn’t understand her.
She was standing in the standing table yesterday and today. She complained that her knee hurt and that it could be the way that the board leans on her artificial knee. Marty, Flo and Maureen came (mom’s friends) and mom spoke but it was hard for them to understand her. She spoke quickly and with tight lips. She isn’t moving her lips very much. She was trying to get in on the conversation. She hasn’t been repeating herself lately. Anthony Michael, Sam and Anthony played 31 the card game and she asked if she could shuffle the cards.
I got there later in the evening. Mom was in the wheel chair watching TV. I sat down next to her and told her about my day. She talked a lot, but it was hard to understand her. A few times I said to talk loud and she produced sound which made it easier to understand her. I then took out the pegs and rings and she put each ring on the pegs. After that we played Wii bowling. She watched the screen and tried to work the controller but couldn’t. I eventually had her hold my wrist and we worked the controller together. Next I put the headphones on her and we listened to music from her iPod. She seems to be intrigued by my blouses. The more ruffles the better. Tonight she kept touching my blouse and she said, “Beautiful.” I had to take my necklace off because she was so distracted by it she couldn’t concentrate on what we were doing. I showed her the “All About Me” book and she read the whole book. She laughed about the part where Kathy wrote about dad and how he likes to make piles of junk. She started to talk about Lenny when we came to that page but I couldn’t understand what she was saying. I told her about Ava moving to Brooklyn by Flatbush Avenue and she said, “My mother lived by Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn.” I stayed until she was put into bed. I made sure she was tucked in and could see and hear the TV. I shut the lights and said a prayer. She said, “Go to sleep” to me.
Peace and Love,
~Claudia
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