Attitude

Sam is starting to be a bit more like herself again and has regained her natural attitude. Over the last two nights I've noticed that her wit and spunkiness are definetly back. That makes me feel a whole lot better. The social worker also called me today and said that Sam was making everyone laugh in the hall this morning. At a little before 9:00 am, all the patients are always lined up waiting to be taken to their therapy classes. Sam apparently said loudly that "it feels like we are all waiting for detention slips". At recreation time, Lee brought in a cool book of photographs that Sam new about and one of the nurses told me later that Sam was just great. She didn't know that Sam had worked at the Met and that she was really very impressed with her. Wow. - I don't know what Sam was saying during recreation, but whatever it was, it was good. Also, today they officially removed her helmet, after my complaints. I was hoping that they could put it on Sam at certain times during the day, but apparently it either needed to be on all of the time or none of the time. Park Terrace is after all an "Institution". - Also, the best news is that Sam was finally upgraded to thin liquids, i.e. water and such. Therefore, they are going to watch her carefully this week and then take tests to determine if she is getting enough calories, fluids, nutrition etc.. If all goes well, the feeding tube can be removed within the next week or so. Sam is still very tired and feeling a bit off, but having had a mild concussion and then staples in her head I think that she is doing pretty well. She and I have started watching game shows at night , first Jeopardy and then Wheel of Fortune. She actually guessed one of the phrases on Wheel of Fortune correctly last night "Climbing Uphill". Pretty impressive.