We are about 10 days from Mom being released from Bishop Davies...she has completed her OT, but still has some days left (and recommended) for PT and ST and she clearly doesn't remember why she would ever leave this "nice place" or where she used to live before...except Lima...and she does remember that that probably isn't where she is going back to...and she is scared. I thought it might be a good idea to head over to Meadowlakes to take some pictures and see if that helps her remember and try a bit harder to get well and get home...
The drive up entrance
Her front door
Her entryway ... all the way down to her favorite chair!
Her favorite (and only) chair
Her pictures (these have one of mom and I's great stories...but she doesn't remember it...we bought these at Woolworth's in Lima probably 35 years ago when mom decided to have friends over for dinner...no big deal until about the night before they came over and suddenly she was convinced that her home was 'dull' and needed some color - so off to the Lima Mall we went...I was ready to spend whatever it took to just be able to go home, but NOOOOOOOOOO...Peg wanted lively color for the walls on a budget...and wanted to look at every picture in the place...OMG...I actually love these little prints now, there are two other ones hanging by her bed that we scored from Elder Beerman on that same trip...I don't even remember what we had for dinner at that party...but I remember the pictures...and mom and I giggling like school girls when our guest remarked on these little ones and mom acted like she'd had them FOREVER!...what a con artist!)
Slim (the tall one), that Daddy got mom at the Rose Shoppe in Lima and the cowboy that my Aunt Betty painted for her in ceramics class...doesn't everybody have an Aunt Betty that's taken a ceramics class???
Bed and Dresser...lamp that she won playing BINGO at the place where she met Bob!
Tammy
her elevator
The dining hall - and most importantly - where she gets her coffee!
Mom's table
The piano - mom loves a sing-along
The Girls
Cleta
Celeste
I showed these to her the evening after I took them and it was a BAD idea...it got all mixed up in her head...but I saved them on my phone and they actually brought her a lot of comfort the day it was time to move her home. She was so scared about leaving Bishop Davies, but when I showed these to her and let her flip through them in the car on the way there...she was excited to get back 'home'!
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