Update

Since I last blogged, I've taken Sam home over the past two weekends for visits, spent a day with Sam in her therapy classes and have had a report on her progress from the last two week period. Overall, I've been told by Jenny, the social worker at Park Terrace , that Sam continues to do well in Cognitive and Speech class, but has stalled a bit in physical therapy. My sense overall is she is doing okay, but not great as I still feel that her medications are just a bit off. I did see her doing alright in cognitive and speech and it was fascinating to see how the therapists work with her, but she still has the repeating problem, and it doesn't seem to be going away. In physical therapy she is quite tired and it is hard for her to stand on her feet for long, although when I was in class with her she showed off for me and walked the length of the hallway back and forth with the "tabletop" walker. I've maybe lost a bit of perspective, but I know to trust my instincts and Sam was definitely doing better before the most recent change in medications about 3 weeks ago. However, this past weekend's visit went very well and Sam enjoyed seeing Lisa on Saturday and Sian on Sunday. Lisa talked to Sam about her artwork and read out recipes from old cookbooks that Sam use to use in her beautiful pieces. Overall Sam was quite inspired and lively. After Lisa left, Sam wanted to see more of her photographs and so we went through some of them together. I hadn't looked at Sam's photographs in awhile and was taken aback by just how beautiful they are. I made a mental note to myself to try and have some of them framed when I next have the chance. The following day, Sam was very sleepy during Sian's visit, but perhaps due to all the activity the day before. However, Sam recognized Sian right away and had a good time listening to Sian and enjoying the fire, in the fireplace, along with the cats.