Different room, same view

This morning we arrived to find that they had moved Mom to a room down the hall.  She is now in 716.  The bummer of it all is that when they moved her early this morning, they didn't move all her things.  Alan spent about an hour trying to track everything down this afternoon.  He was able to find some of it in the old room, but not everything.  Nothing valuable, but special to us.  (He did meet the new occupant of 724, a fellow BYU fan!)

Travis came in to help Mom stand up again, and speech therapy helped her eat a few ice chips. The nurse practitioner was excited about Mom's progress too.  Mom is very involved in asking questions and wants to know what everyone is doing to her.  She asks intelligent questions, but still doesn't fully connect what is going on.  She continues to get pretty feisty when people move her legs.  If one of us is in the room we can sometimes persuade her to cooperate when she doesn't want to.  She says she doesn't like anyone to tell her what to do!!!  (Is that a Whitehead Woman, or what?!!)

Bryce made a special copy of Mom and Dad's 50th anniversary DVD so that it loops continuously.  We put it on this afternoon and she has watched it over and over.  She remembers most of the pictures and events, and it is really sweet to have those memories playing.  I don't know about anyone else, but I still get choked up watching it.  What a wonderful life she has lived this far, and we still have lots of wonderful memories ahead of us!