As Day Sixty-One ends, Jenny is having a particularly rough day following the x-ray procedure yesterday which continues to cause her right shoulder and arm a lot of pain.

Today at Speech & Language Pathology, Jenny was asked the usual series of normal questions and for the first time, Jenny was able to remember the correct date of my birthday without assistance or hints. She would usually have to be given hints to arrive to the correct date. The next activity was more advanced than just pairing pictures and words – it was pairing the purpose of the pictures to words that you had to think about on your own with no help. For example, there was a picture of a flower, a bicycle, a pen and a house and she would be asked “Which of these do you write with?”

Though she only got about 50% of the answers right, the one error that stuck out to me was when she was given four animals: a snake, a cow, a bee and a duck. She was then asked

“Which animal gives you milk?”

and after thinking about it for a moment she said

“The bee.”

The S.L.P. therapist asked again

“Are you sure it’s the bee?”

And Jenny responded

“Yes the bee.”

She still gives a lot of incorrect answers for S.L.P. activities, some where you and I would not even hesitate to answer in a flash because we know it’s correct but Jenny’s brain sometimes just cannot arrive to that point. I am told once she gives the correct answer for about 75% of an activity, they will move her onto the next complex tier of it.

I had brought our cat Tofu today and when we got back to her room he was waiting in her rehab bed in an adorable position and I had to take a photo if it.