March 26, 2010

George was still asleep when I came over today. I would be to though, it was cloudy and rainy and snowing. I fixed some lunch at home after he was able to talk to Sharon and David on the computer. While he was eating I said “That was cool huh?” (About seeing Sharon on the computer) He said “Yes, oh yes” he liked it! We almost got done with his painting that he was working on when I was there on Wednesday. I had to leave early, my Dad had some of his wood work in a competition and my step sister had a baby girl and I went to see her. I came back and picked George and Dennis up and took them to the competition. George did really well there. My Dad one a third place, a first place and another first place and best of division! I’m glad George liked it.

There are two more pictures on photobucket. One of George and the computer and one of George and the competition.

March 24, 2010

When I drove up to the house today, George was outside reading the paper :) He knew where he wanted to go to lunch today. We drove up 7200 So. He said “I’ve always wanted to try that place”. It was Teru Sushi, it was pretty good. He’s been wanting to go to Park City to watch the ski jumpers. I told him they don’t do that yet but when they do we will go watch them. We drove up the mountains to Brighton. We watched the skiers, not too many were up there that we could see. It was a nice day. The sun and the drive made us both really tired. When we came home he called and talked to Sharon. We tried to sign up for Skype and will try again on Friday. (He's been more talkative lately). :)

March 22, 2010

Today George said he wanted to go for a “Joy ride”. He wanted to go to Taco Bell for lunch; he ordered a shrimp taco and ate the whole thing. We went for a drive around the Millcreek area. Drives are always interesting with him. I always end up places I’ve never been before. We ended up where we could go straight or left to go up to the mountains. I asked him if he wanted to go left or straight, he said “No, No, No” he apparently didn’t want to go to the mountains. We ended up going to the liquor store on the way home. I had him start on an art project before I left. He was tired so we will finish it maybe on Friday. (It was colored pencils that turn to watercolor after you apply a wet brush to the canvas. There are 4 canvases, one for each season, he chose to do spring).

March 19, 2010

When I came over George was up and watching TV. I got over a little later than usual; it looked like a nice day so I was making lunch to have outside. I had George sit outside and start on a snack while I made his lunch (He really likes TGI Friday’s steak fajitas). It started to get kinda cold and cloudy so he came in. While we were eating it started snowing! Then it cleared up and we went to the bank to deposit some of his money, he didn’t want to go for a drive afterwards so we came home and it started snowing again, and it was sunny, go figure. We made the Easter house; it turned out really cute :) The weather was crazy today sunny one minute then snowing the next. We did some PT too. He did really well.
I took his weight and BP on Wednesday. His BP was 102/62 and his weight was 96lbs.

There are 2 more pictures of the Easter house on photobucket. (Remember to click on the album towards the top of the page, it looks better that way).

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Carla came over today to work with George. She said he did a really good job. She left some exercises at the house for him to practice. She was saying that on one of the exercises he has to close his eyes. It was funny cause she said he would start to fall asleep. Hehe.

I packed up lunch to take to the park. It was such a nice day! After lunch we walked around a bit. There was a girl that George was watching while he was eating and she was doing excersices on the curb, it’s funny cause when we were on our walk, he wanted to be in the same spot. We did some leg exercises, then he was ready to go. We went for a drive around Sandy then went to cash his checks at the bank. Tom and Fran gave him a check for his BD :) I nice man gave him his cane when we were leaving the bank (He always forgets it). The girls at the bank laughed telling him, "He always forgets it”. We came home, sat on the patio and had a drink then went to look at the pond and then sat on the swing for a bit. Geroge called and talked to Sharon before I left. We will probably get on Skype on Friday and talk to her online! That way he can see everything is ok.

March 12, 2010

I was gone the first week in March on vacation and worked at the hospital the following Week. Sharon was here and got to spend that time with George! On the 12th I came over, George had a physical therapist (Carla) come over and work with him. He did a great job ;) After wards, Sharon took George and I out to lunch at Ruth’s Diner. The patio was closed so we couldn’t eat outside; it was a really nice day though. Thanks Sharon!

while Jody's on vacation

Tuesday, March 2
I've been here since Saturday. We had a party for him on Sunday. He really went to town on the cake cutting long strips and little boxes. He then cut and served pieces to everyone. We laughed so hard. He has been pretty tired for 3 days. But yesterday it was really sunny so he wanted to go for a walk. He walked the length of his street. And I pushed him around the rest of the block and we even went to look at his back door neighbor's house, the one hes always curious about. She was outside so we got to say hello. And today I took him out to lunch and he perked up a bit. Afterwards he wanted to go for a drive so we went up toward the mountains and drove around a neighborhood with big houses. He really likes big houses. Then we drove down into the valley and I just followed his directions. He knew exactly where we were at all times. He even pointed out his old dentist's office, where we went about 3 years ago. We went to see Bill, his old friend who raises chickens and sells fresh eggs. When he saw Bill, he said, "Hello Bill!" I was surprised he remembered his name.