Cornflakes

Today was another good Saturday for Sam. She wasn't as clear as last week, but she was alert talkative and responsive. A number of times she surprised me with her quick sharp wit. For example, I was talking with her a little bit about our computer at home and how I wished she were there to help me because I really didn't know how to do certain things like download photo's from our camera. Sam was always the computer wizard, not me. Without missing a beat, she looked straight at me, pointed her finger at me and said "practice". We were also watching a French cooking show on TV, and out of the blue she said "oh..they usually have Julia Child on this show". I don't believe that was correct, but nonetheless, it was pretty sharp of her to associate French cooking with Julia Child. And, most impressively, later in the day, I had given Sam a pad and pencil for sketching and after a little bit I saw that she had actually written a few letters out for the first time. The letters were "cor" . I asked Sam if she were trying to write anything in particular and she said yes..."cornflakes". Well, I'm not sure why she wanted to write cornflakes, but I was pretty impressed. She never did finish writing the word out, but I thought it was quite amazing. Writing is extremely difficult for someone in Sam's condition, so even writing those few letters out correctly was truly an impressive feat.