Observations

Last Sunday I stopped by to see Martha. She was just getting ready to watch TV but the remote wasn't working for her. Fairly annoyed, she handed it to me to see if I could make it work (pretty funny because I normally hand the remote to Linda to sort out). Anyway, I got the remote to pull up a menu on the TV, and then started clicking through to find football. Martha knew when I hit the list of NFL channels!

I don't know how or how many, but I think she recognizes some words. Chloe says she's noticed the same thing. I asked Martha and she said yes. I think the disconnect is in her ability to process and/or communicate what she saw/read.

Mo and Bob also stopped by and brought Martha a lottery ticket. Interestingly enough, she knew she was supposed to scratch off the gray stuff. That's hard to do one-handed, so she handed it to me to finish. She won $8. Bob wanted to look at the ticket (yeah, right) but she was not going to give it up. And we were treated to a couple of rounds of "I won, I won, I won."

P.S. She liked the chili I made. I'm guessing, but I imagine she liked the ice cream Bob and Mo brought as well. ;-) Coming up this Sunday -- scalloped potatoes.

Sense of humor 2

It's football season, so guess what was on TV at the Deshong's yesterday? Martha was watching the Indy game when Linda and I stopped over. We brought presents from our trip to Charleston. I think Martha liked her Charleston Riverdogs shirt and baseball because I saw her looking at the shirt even while the game was on. Normally she's very focused when there's a game on.

Chloe decided she was going to make chili for the first time and pulled a recipe off the internet. While Chloe was in the kitchen, Linda asked Martha if she missed cooking and being in the kitchen. Martha glanced toward the kitchen, more than once, rolled her eyes and said "yes." We knew exactly what she meant and everyone had a good laugh. We all decided we didn't really like the recipe but she ate a bowl of chili as well as some of the kettle corn we brought from the Clothesline Festival. Earlier she had some of the swiss cheese pie Chloe made, so her sense of taste is coming back.

As we were getting ready to leave, since she'd had some of the chili Chloe made, I said I'd bring the chili next week. Martha glanced toward the kitchen, grinned, and said "thank you."