We
are making big plans for Bob to spring Bob from Rehab on Friday!
Yesterday we went on an outing with Paula, our occupational therapist,
to visit the condo to scope how to make it a safe place to support Bob’s
further healing. Then we went out for lunch on our way back to Health
South. Bob was very interested to get a glimpse of life outside the
hospital. He was stunned to see that gas cost $3.59 a gallon. He thought
that he remembered it being more like $2.59. He also thought that the
cars on the road looked different than he had remembered. It seemed that
perhaps at that moment that he was stuck in an earlier era in his mind.
Nonetheless, he was really tickled to be out and really pleased that it
seemed to have sparked some new memories for him.
Last
evening, though, as he settled into bed Bob was reviewing the journal
writing he had done through the day. He saw that we had been to the
condo and that we had been out to lunch, and was sad not to be able to
remember the good time we had had.
This will be a long journey, and for now, Bob’s journal is his external memory until the internal one heals.
-Megan
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