Monday October 17th 2011

I (Peter) am authoring today's blog for yesterday's visit to Meadowbrook since Erica was working all day.

Mark, Max, Maya and I arrived at Meadowbrook around 11 am and met Momu and Poppa in their rooms. Momu was dressed and put her makeup on and then we visited for an hour before their lunchtime. Poppa has been having his lunchtime meal in the first floor dining room while Momu was recovering from her stomach problems. She is fine again and said she would join Poppa for lunch for the first time in the dining room. We walked them down and the Activity Director Tracy gave them a corner table by themselves. Momu ate her entire meal while Poppa said he wasn't hungry.

Afterwards, we sat in the courtyard for about a half an hour in the sun. They looked good (photo attached). Then they were tired and asked to take them upstairs to lie down. We then left for our lunch.

When we returned at dinner time we found them both in the dining room at the same table but this time with two men that Poppa had been sitting with the week before. Momu was engaged in conversation, which I took as a really good sign. (photo attached)

After dinner we went to the second floor activity room where Momu instructed Maya on knitting while Poppa watched Max answer flash card math questions with various coin amounts. He was impressed, as was I.

Poppa was tired and I took him back to his room while the others remained in the activity room for another 1/2 hour. All in all a pretty positive day and hopefully they will continue to eat meals in the dining room where when they are seated an aide comes to their table and says "I am your waitress what would you like to eat and drink?"

This morning Mark, Max, Maya and I will visit folks before lunch and leave for New York City afterwards. I'm hoping the realization that Meadowbrook is a safe environment for them as Poppa turns 95 on October 30th and Momu 94 on November 16th.