Day 24 – Saturday 6 December
As mentioned yesterday, Mark and I left just after 6 to go to the Haughton for Mike’s 25 year dinner leaving Pat with Paul. After we had left, Eilidh, Neil (Eilidh’s brother), Andrew and Tom came in to visit and as promised, Andrew brought him a kebab! They stayed with him until the end of visiting and by the time they left he had managed to eat most of the kebab.
The weekends at Maidencraig are similar to the ARI in that there is no physio or any other activities going on so we arrived to find Paul watching Star Wars. One of the nurses spoke to us and said that Paul needs to do some exercises to improve his short term memory and suggested some simple memory card games that would help. We didn’t have any normal playing cards with us so we played a couple of games of Uno and then started to watch Kung Fu Panda!
Paul dozed off after a while and then Ben (Ward) and David (Murdoch) popped in to see him. Pat and I left them to it for a while and when we got back Bill Roadnight (from the Museum) and Eilidh and Anna arrived. We sat chatting until it was supper time and Eilidh and Anna left, so Mark, Pat and I went for ANOTHER cup of tea (and a plate of chips to help get rid of the taste of the tea!) Supper tonight was Turkey casserole followed by semolina (double yuk!) but apparently he ate it??!! Mind you, once he got back to the room he had his now usual fare of chocolate, cake, strawberries, chocolate, biscuits, chocolate.....
We took in the Aberdeen version of Monopoly but didn’t get around to playing it today, so we might have a go tomorrow.
One of the nurses pointed us at a couple of web sites about brain injuries so if you want more information you should find it here:
www.neuroskills.com or www.headway.org.uk
3 comments:
Woah - he looks almost normal now (or as close to normal he can be ^_^). Good to see he's playing Uno - it's not the easiest game in the world.
Stuart x
I WILL EXEPT NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT KABAB!!
(i offered to bring him anything he wanted,and he chose that)
ps; i hope it doesn't take it's revenge
get well soon andrew
x
He looks so much more like his old self, you can see such an improvement looking at the pictures.
Could you give me an address for Paul so I can send him a christmas card?
Katharine xx
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