Toothpaste is back

Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Jacquie joined us for dinner tonight.  We had a stuffed pork roast with gravy, mashed potatoes and beans.  Edward hardly touched his meal.  He did eat some of his rice pudding.
Mom ate her whole dinner.  She had smaller portions.  She didn't even try her rice pudding.
I peeled an orange that I got from Shanta on Friday.  It was still good.  I shared it with mom, Edward and Donna.
Edward did a large, fake flower arrangement and it was displayed on the dining table.  I couldn't see Donna on the other side.  She called it a forest.  Edward was proud of his creation.  He was grinning ear to ear.
Towards the end of the meal, I noticed mom was a little tense so I asked her if she had to go to the washroom.  She did so we got up and left the table.  When we got back, my rice pudding and tea was still there.  Mom had forgotten that we had already eaten.  She thought that dishes had been left on the table.  Soon she forgot that too and was eating a piece of orange.
After dinner I saw Barbara still sitting at her table so I offered to push her back to the room.  She said that she would wait for an aide, but I pushed her back anyways.
Mom's toothpaste was back.  After I got home Sunday night I had recalled that I hadn't seen mom's toothpaste for a few days.  I put a new tube in her drawer, but her other toothpaste had reappeared.
Ming is back from vacation.  He said he was only gone a week, but it seemed longer.
We played card bingo.  I seated mom first and then went to find Donna.  She was in the room so I told her to go to the fish tank room and sit beside mom.  When I joined mom, I didn't see Donna.  Turned out Donna was sitting across from her.  Mom was saving the seat for me.  Luckily it wasn't a full house so I could sit beside her.  Mom and Donna both won a bag of potato chips.
I saw Sam for the first time in a long time.  Anna and Sam sat together.
After the game, I pushed Shanta to the television room.  Alan wasn't there today.  Donna called mom to join her.  Donna calls her "Reeko."  They went to stash their winnings.
Mom, Anna and Donna were sitting at the nurses' station with two other ladies in wheelchairs when I got back from depositing Shanta in the television room.