As Day Sixty-Two & Three ends, Jenny completes her third weekend at Riverview Health Centre. As a reminder, during the weekends there is no therapy activities and it’s essentially “free” time which sounds nice at first but for Jenny weekends are full of longing as she just wants go home but is not permitted to at this point.

However, in comparison to last weekend this weekend was a lot easier to manage for Jenny because of the recent permission granted for Tofu, our orange tabby cat, being allowed to stay with her at Riverview as long as I am there to monitor their activity.

Even though there is no therapy over the weekends, she is still highly encouraged to walk. Every time they ask her, she refuses but eventually they do bring her anyway. She is currently under the status “two-person assist” meaning whatever she does, it requires two people to assist or monitor her. During her walks she goes to the end of the floor (from the West wing to the East wing and back) and does this twice a day. Each walk takes about 10-12 minutes as Jenny walks very slowly, often stuttering her steps as her balance still has a lot left to improve on.