When I arrived to see mom this morning, she was just finishing breakfast. Breakfast must have come early. Mom said she slept well and that she had hard boiled egg for breakfast. Mom has a really nice, kind roommate. The roommate reminds me a bit of a younger Aunt Sophie!! She looks like her. At one point this morning, mom asked what her roommate’s name was and when I told her she said she didn’t know that before. I told her she knew but had forgotten and that it was OK. Mom became annoyed and said, “Oh, well now I suppose you are all going to blame me for everything and then say ‘Oh you forgot mom!’” She is too funny!
Mom said that she wanted to work on telling time today. She said, “Ok, I want to look at the clock and see if I can tell what time it is.” She looked at the clock on the wall in front of her bed and said, “Umm…it’s 9:05. Right?” And it was!! Five minutes later, mom did the same thing. She looked at the clock and said, “OK, let me see…it’s umm 10 after 9, right?” And it was!! I told her she is doing really well with telling time and she said, “Well, I did that with the speech therapist yesterday. But I don’t think I did so good with it yesterday.”
Mom also showed me the tool Claudia made for her to hold over her stoma so she could be heard better. Mom said, “Yeah, I’ve been practicing with it.” This is sooo great—the fact that mom is now practicing her skill development on her own now!!
Mom spent some time puzzling over her skills with the calendar too. She asked, “How do you say the 10th of September?” I was inclined at first to say, “Just the way you did” but then I realized she meant ‘in numbers’ because she asked, “Is it 20-10? Is that how you say it?” I told her that it is, “9-10 because September is the 9th month.” She said, “Oh, but I don’t think so.”
Mom kept calling dad to find out where he was. I left for work right before dad came to be with mom. While I was there though, one of the respiratory therapists came to see mom. The therapist was surprised to see mom in the facility still and said that we need to get mom to do some ‘breathing exercises’ where she takes big, deep breaths.
Last night, Ava called mom to say thank you for the letter mom sent last week. Mom didn’t remember writing the letter and kept telling Ava that Claudia must have written it and signed her name to it. Ava laughed. Mom said, “Well I hope you enjoyed whatever it said.”
Claudia saw mom tonight and Claudia noticed that mom had done some of the crossword puzzle I left her this morning. They sat and talked and watched TV. After mom was in bed, Claudia gave mom a book I bought her called, “All Pigs are Beautiful.” Mom got a kick out of it. Mom went page by page and read every word and Claudia asked her comprehension questions based on the pictures. Mom answered the questions. Mom kept thumbing through the book over and over. Mom had all the answers right. Claudia said that a weird thing was that mom kept saying that there were a lot of mistakes in the book. Mom couldn’t identify any mistakes though when Claudia asked her to tell her what they were. Mom took the remote then and tried to get Channel 12 for the Food Network but kept hitting Channel 11 instead. They said a prayer and mom closed her eyes.
“…he refreshes my soul…” Psalm 23:3
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