COMING TOGETHER--41

This is Thursday, the day we go to get my mother's hair color changed. She will be going a long time without food, I thought. So she actually had double the amount of cereal than usual. I think she didn't mean to pour out so much cereal, but she doesn't see well, so there it was. She did eat it all. This encourages me because she is not fighting against breakfast.

Then we left for the hair place a half hour early. Mom was there 1 1/2 hours, feeling waited on, which she loves. Then she said she had a restaurant for us to go to; I knew when she wouldn't tell me what it was that she was hiding it from me. It was the Cheesecake Factory. We went and the food was good. Mom had some lemon-flavored pie with whipped cream and strawberries. It stuffed her till she couldn't help but go to sleep. She went from being little-old-lady to looking like a beach ball.

When we got back to the apt., she went right to sleep!

Baseball tonight on tv.

This has been a day of pleasure.

She woke up soon afterward. We didn't do anything this afternoon, but we did see the Rangers game and then Mom went to sleep. I stayed up much later for the Ken Burns anthology of baseball on channel 13.

Good day.

This is Friday. We have had a good day. Mom ate well, I did some errands and we had a good dinner at Steak & Ale. I contacted my company about coming back to work, which I hope works out.

Mom has been in good spirits, as if she has learned to embrace a certain routine and get it out of the way. So we eat early, do some things in the middle of the day, then eat around 6-7pm and then watch baseball, if it's on.

If there's nothing on tv, Mom gets bored to the point of eating sweets and not doing her exercises. Finding something that interests her is the issue.

I know I can't do that for her. She needs activities with others, not me. I wonder if I am helping her live or not, but for now this is what we have. She needs activities that people her age do together. But for now, we go on.