I must say Mom is doing quite well recently. She has a lot of energy (almost too much. She wants to help out around the house and gets frustrated when she can't (or when we object)). Sometimes, she can't sleep and gets up in the middle of the night, thinking it's morning but, when I point out that it's still dark, she either goes back to bed or sits up for an hour or two reading. She's been reading a lot and she also has a book of large print find-the-word puzzles which she's been working on with some success. The current puzzle is African capital cities and the answers can be found forward, backward, vertical up and down, and diagonal up and down which I think is a fair challenge for a soon-to-be-91 year old. (After all, when she was a kid there were only three or four African national capitals: Cairo(?), Addis Ababa, Johannesburg and Monrovia.)
She hasn't had any difficulty finding the right words to communicate either, recently, and has been pretty good at remembering which day it is (with a margin of error of one either way) although despite remembering on Saturday that it was Saturday and tomorrow would be Sunday and therefore French toast day when she woke early on Sunday she forgot it was Sunday and fixed herself a bowl of cereal which didn't stop her from having French toast when I reminded her it was Sunday.
She knows who everyone is (although she still thinks someone else must be around helping out) and watches the news every night and understands what's happening in Japan and Libya.
In other news, something/someone ate two of the nearly ripe plum tomatoes last night and my brother is pissed.
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