The Nectar Mighty Shake

As always when I arrived saturday morning, Sam was overwhelmed by seeing me and started crying. She was also upset because the staff were decorating the nurses station for the Holidays and a number of patients were helping out...but they were the patients who could stand/walk on their own. The first thing Sam said to me thru her tears was that she wasn't able to help them cause she can't walk. Now I know that she did actually help them decorate last week as they all talked to me about it, but it was a different type of decorating. I calmed Sam down and afterwards, we had a very peaceful and happy weekend. We listened to the Eurythmics greatest hits and sang along as best we could. At one point during the day, Sam was napping and had her eyes closed. When she opened them, she looked at me and said, "I was dreaming about you" and she was grinning ear to ear. Sam also went to the "Inner art" class and spent 1-1/2 hours painting. She worked really hard on concentrating on the work and made two paintings overall. Dahalia, the person who runs the inner art program is terrific and she placed Sam's pieces up on the wall and asked Sam to talk with her about them. She also invited the other participants to comment as well. Sam seemed very pleased. When Dahalia asked if Sam wanted to take the work and put it up in her room, she said "no...I want to put it up at home!" After the class I took Sam upstairs back to her room to rest, and when we got there, sitting on her table was a "Strawberry Nectar Mighty Shake for Sam" all labeled nicely. It made me smile, since I felt that after Sam's output in class she was pretty mightly alright. Sam was very thirsty so the mighty Sam drank the mighty shake right down. Sam said she was warm and happy.