Sunday, 29 March 2015

I got up early enough to go out for a walk this morning, but just as I went out the door from the building, it began to sprinkle lightly. I was worried that it might rain quite a bit more, so I didn't dare go walking.

I did the weekly grocery shopping this morning, including buying ingredients for the charoset that we'll make later this week for Pesach (Passover).

At 1:30, David had an appointment with the physical therapist at Maccabi in town. We took his wheelchair because there is no parking at all close enough for him to walk in from it. Just as we went out the door, BIG drops of rain began to fall, but we managed to get into the car (and get the wheelchair into the hatch) without getting too wet. Luckily, it was NOT cold. By the time we got to Maccabi, it had essentially stopped raining.

Hannah, the physical therapist, whom we had only seen once, before David's hospitalization, had already heard something about what had happened to him from a friend of hers who works at the rehab hospital where he was. But I took the release papers from both hospitals (regular and rehab) for her to look at and get more info. She made a copy of them, so she can look at them more completely at her leisure.

She was quite honest with us about the possibilities. She told us that the kind of dementia David has usually does NOT improve but, instead, gets gradually worse. This didn't surprise me much, though, because I have already observed it. David was also aware of it but perhaps a bit less acutely than I was. She also said that the best rehab for him would have been at the rehab hospital but that they will do the best they can for him here. He probably will be able to have a therapist come to the house a couple of times a week to see the situation here at home and to work with him here. I'm quite happy to hear that, although realistically we may not see much improvement.

After the appointment we drove over to Mercaz Big and ate lunch at Togarashi, an Asian place there. David had corn soup (which he loves!), I had Japanese hot and sour salad, and we both had pad-thai, although David ate only a little of his.

I signed up for a class on Udemy (an website with online classes) to learn Ruby on Rails, a programming system for creating web apps. I've seen jobs advertised for people skilled in this, so I know it's technology that's actually used. I hope that the lectures and homework will also be interesting.

I did the last two lessons of Hebrew Podcasts today, so I won't be able to do more until they release new ones, which they do about once a month, I think.

In the evening, David wanted ice cream, so I walked the 2 blocks down to the sweets store and bought us each a pint of Ben & Jerry's. Neither of us ate all of ours, though -- we're saving some for later!