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We are just back from visiting my husband in the nursing home. To be honest, since he has been so antsy lately and insisted that his nurse help him call Brian, etc., we were dreading a possible confrontation. We talked about how we would try to handle it, try to calm his down. Thankfully, he was totally engrossed in making elaborate plans to leave, writing in the notebook we got for him, making scrawls that even he can’t decipher. He has decided he wants to go to Tate.
Tate is a private community on top of a mountain in Northern Georgia. Relatives went together years ago and bought acreage around a lake and built the community year by year, with a lot of the families building homes to vacation in, some actually living there almost year round. It’s a beautiful place we got to visit, fish, swim, spend time in a home there, and showed Brian all around when he was about 5.
Harvey wanted to know if Tate was in Thailand now. And things went downhill from there. But he stayed calm, even when we had to tell him again that we didn’t have our Honda here and that you couldn’t drive from here to the States. He continued to add to his plans, both telling us and trying to write them down, even with the answers we gave him. We left him watching some TV, but he was still planning in his head. Brian ordered him a pizza. His nurse sent us a picture and then a video of Harvey enjoying the pizza. He actually thanked Brian for having it delivered to him, so that was good. It was such a relief not to have rampant frustration, upset, and more today. His nurse wanted to know if he was confused today. Brian wrote back to tell her that he was VERY confused, but seemed calm about things while we were there. Whew!
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I have base painted 4 sketches I did yesterday and will take my sketchbook to the cafe in about 45 minutes to work on them. The cafe is my calm, happy place where I can leave all cares behind for a while while I work on details of sketches or start new sketches. I’m so lucky to have this.
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My guitar sits in its spot during the week (except when the housekeeper is due) so that I can just sit down and practice a short time several times a day. I’m loving trying to get smoother on the chord changes and strumming techniques, while the frog continues to croak along with it. 🎸🎶
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Donna, this is particularly for you, since you have been encouraging my excrutiatingly slow efforts to put the jigsaw puzzle together. I AM making progress…
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