first camera club meeting

A blog from Wendy....

I got off the elevator, looked to my right and waited for Sam to turn her head to catch my eye and she did and gave that "Sam" smile of recognition. Well that made my day!!! I hadn't seen Sam since they removed the trache on Monday. She looks fantastic and um ....  like Sam!!  But I have to remind myself that she still has a very long road ahead. Finally removing the trache was just another  piece of the puzzle and another check on the checklist! And something several months ago many thought impossible.   She's incredible. I had just arrived between her therapy sessions-physical therapy,  still cannot walk, occupational and cognitive therapy, to relearn to read, write , regain memory and relearn every day tasks that we take for granted. So we visited for half an hour before they whisked her away for speech therapy. 

I wanted to wait around so i could spend some more time with Sam so I plopped myself down on her newly made up bed, read the newspaper and watched some tv. All of a sudden one of the nurses poked his head in and yelled, "Sam, what the heck is going on"?  When he realized that i wasn't Sam, he burst out laughing and told me i almost gave him a heart attack.  He called some of the other nurses over to have a chuckle over his surprise.

When I wheeled Sam back to the room an hour later, I told her the story and she laughed. 

Before Sam's shocker four months ago Sam and I joked but were kinda serious  about having a camera club. Okay so the club was just me and Sam. But we thought it would be fun to once and awhile do something camera-ee and take photos together.  I told her she had to be president but she just really wanted to be in  charge of making our official hats. We never really had our first camera club meeting cause after talking about it off and on for a year or TWO,  the conversation would always dissolve into a discussion of what kind of uniform we would wear for our  meetings. Well Sam, I finally got you and today was our first official camera club meeting.  I brought my camera today for my visit. I wanted Sam to hold a camera again. Sam's second love ( Marcie of course being her first)  is taking pictures.  It took Sam a little bit to coordinate holding the camera correctly. I showed her where the shutter was. She studied it intensely and when ready, took that picture of me below.  I guess I was ready for my close up!!

Our first camera club meeting!  

-love from Wendy