Ava and I started the day with mom. She was sleeping when we arrived. We brought her breakfast. She ate a ham and cheese omelet and home fries with onions. She loved it. I also gave her Fiber One in a cup and a
cappuccino. The Fiber One has been working to help with bowel issues. Evidently, being in bed and a wheel chair reeks havoc with your intestines and makes moving your bowels very difficult.
She was so happy to see Ava. We played a new game today. It is a logic game with three different colored candy pieces with three different shapes. Three dark chocolates, three caramel candies and three strawberry candies. I just showed her the answers and she had to match the template and place the pieces in on the board. I used phrases such as top middle, bottom right, etc. She did pretty well with the verbal and visual together. She looked over and saw the language binder we have been using and it said Grammatical Clozure and she asked what it meant. i told her that it was full of activities like the missing piece activity that we do and she said, "That's visual not grammar. What does grammatical clozure mean." I don't know?!?! I told her we would have to ask John's cousin. I was talking to Ava at one point and mom said, "She's being sarcastic Ava." Ava was telling her about a friend she has that lives on Long Island by the water. Mom said, "By the water? What is he a fish?"
We then took mom down to the computer room and Ava showed her the pictures on her Facebook. Ava told her who all the people were. Mom remembered some but not all.
Anthony, Con and the kids came and brought mom an ice coffee. They said mom was so happy to see them. They had a great visit. Anthony saw the PT and asked how maom was doing and he said she is doing well. She often crosses her legs when she walks and they have to place a stick between her legs as a physical renminder not to cross them when she walks. He said she is making progress and there is no reason why she can't learn to walk again.
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Anthony, Con, Samantha, and Anthony Michael came to see mom today. Sammy said that mom was really surprised and thrilled to see them! They talked, visited, laughed. Mom had lunch. Terry came next and played word searches on the NOOK and then they played a game called, “Chocolate Fix” which is a logical deduction game. This game has a board that looks like a tic-tac-toe board but with circles cut out of it. There are also plastic chocolate candies of various shapes and colors—triangles, squares, and circles that are pink, dark brown and light brown. Then there is a memo pad with a different set of clues on each page. For example, the clues are all in pictures and by looking at the pictures, you have to deduct what pieces of candy go where. Terry and mom also filled out her menu for the week.
When I arrived, mom was so glad to see me. I gave her a sewing card to do and she actually sewed it appropriately and corrected!! I also saw that mom has begun to take notes in the small memo pad book that Dad brought for her to write in!!! She is writing in script!!! All the words are spelled correctly too!!! Mom finished writing—she is beginning to write notes to herself as reminders of what to do (just like before the stroke!!) but then, as she became tired, she couldn’t read what she had written and became extremely frustrated and kept starting to cry on and off. I could read what she wrote but she couldn’t. I tried to explain it all to her but finally, I had to distract her like a small child and take the pencil and pad away so she would stop fixating on it. She wanted to fill out the menu for next week. She had a hard time at first figuring out how to read it. She also insisted on understanding it!!! Finally, she persisted and pretty much understood it.
Terry stayed to put mom to bed tonight. Dad and I left to go to my house for dinner. Mom cried when dad said he was leaving. It is so sad to see them both crying. As dad and I walked out of the facility, I looked up and there in the pinkest clouds I've ever seen was a RAINBOW!! Huge and beautiful and well defined on both sides. I showed dad and began to cry again, "God's Covenant! God's Covenant!!! Maybe mom will come home soon."
"I hereby confirm my covenant with you and your descendants," Genesis 9:9
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