Not a whole lot of noteworthy things to mention today. My mom didn't have her best day, but she was a trooper and totally powered through her busy schedule anyway. During OT, she worked on using her stubborn right arm to push a shopping cart. It's not hard to help her understand and appreciate the value in that task! She was all smiles when we talked about her future shopping days.
We had a family meeting today with each of my mom's therapists, her doctor, and a few others here at TIRR. We see and ask these providers questions all the time, but today it was in a more formal setting with everyone together. My mom asked excellent questions during that meeting and articulated herself very well. When she and I walked out with her speech therapist, Emily carried on and on about how impressed she was with my mom and how proud she was with the way that she was speaking to everyone. Later, my dad and I kind of laughed about it because we see those things from my mom all the time. Her brain still has a lot of healing to do, definitely, but as my mom stated to her doctor the other day, her mental abilities are ahead of her physical abilities. And as we all know with that brain of hers, she'll be impressing them with every step.
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