One good thing about mornings now, is like at the beginning of staying with her, I can good and run errands early mornings and trust me, I do check in on her with the camera while I'm away. I believe I mention how she has left the house twice on a Sunday morning, so that is always in my mind now when I leave. But I am calmer when I know she sees me before I leave.
However, yesterday day morning, I needed to go and return an item, and normally, I do my best to not leave two or more days in a row, but it will happen I suppose. The suprise was when I got back. Now I did check the camera before I headed back, and saw she was at the kitchen counter, and I assume she was fixing a bowl of cereal. Well, I walked in and she was at the table, eating scrambled eggs with toast and jelly. She looks at me and said, "I wanted something different, so I made some cheese eggs". I just gave her a high five!
You see with a dementia mind in its early stage, they forget how to do certain things off and on, but you won't know right away what those things are. With my mother, she kept telling me how she doesn't remember how to turn the stove on, and glad I'm her to do it. But in order to cook eggs, she knew how to turn it on. Interesting isn't it? But later I realize, the side of the stove she cooks on, is the side she always used. But the other side with the coffee pot, she doesn't remember how to turn it on. And we all know they turn on the same way. Just think, 11 months ago, she couldn't remember how to use the stove. So yes, things will come back one day, and gone the next.
I am thankful for all these better days we are having of later. There is still confusion and hallucinations within the days, but much fewer then before. How long this will last? I have no clue, but I'm going to take it one day at a time.
Calmness. ..
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