Today

Now that I've begun to share her story (really our story), I would like to focus daily on her activities. Today is as good a day as any.

Alma is a 69 year old female. She is five feet, four inches tall and weighs around 125 pounds. She loves to walk outdoors, read the newspaper and watch romantic comedies (she especially likes Adam Sandler movies which I find hilarious).

When she moved in with us last summer, we painted her bedroom the color that hers was at ther house and did our best to set the room up in a way that was most familiar to her. Even with all of the care we took to keep things familiar, we are noticing that she tends to be quite "out of it" most mornings. There have been several times recently where she just doesn't seem to know where she is or how she got there.

Most of our days are pretty routine. I am her primary caretaker. She wakes up around 6am and I bring her oatmeal, fruit and coffee which she eats while watching the news. Once everyone else in the familiy leaves for the day, we take care of bathing and little household tasks. Then we usually get out for a walk and spend the rest of the day running errands or doing various activities that I come up with that might entertain her temporarily. Due to the fact that our family is pretty active, we rarely get dinner together before seven. However, we've noticed that Alma likes to go to bed at around 6pm so I try to either have dinner ready early, or take care of her and let her go to bed early.

Now that we have a bit of background, I will move on to hopefully shorter posts about her progress each day. If there is anyone out there interested in reading about this, please feel free to interject. I would like to conclude this post with a reminder that I have no clue what I'm doing!