MADISON, AL.
An exciting therapy session was had today. The OFM hit the therapy room a bit early this afternoon and had about a ten minute wait for the fellow ahead of me to finish his session. Then the teacher and I visited about some business items. Then it was therapy time. She is excellent at picking my therapy activities. So today I was not surprised when we returned to an activity that the OFM totally failed at a couple of months ago. It was a fun item to try where you put specially shaped pieces of thin wood on a grid to be certain shapes. Two months ago this exercise totally blew my abilities into the sewer. I achieved a score of total failure for the effort, but it was fun trying.
Today was a new day. We discussed how the dementia was treating me today. Badly I told her. We discussed it a few minutes so she could get a good read on my thinking ability and announced we would put me to work on this program just to find out how I tested today over (or under) the last time to attempt the task.
It involves fitting varied shaped flat pieces of wood onto a shape drawn on a piece of plastic to create a given design. There are six different designs to duplicate with each one harder than the previous one. Last time I could not even get the easiest one figured out.
So today I went to work on the first task with little hope of doing good since my thinking ability seems to have slipped a bit since the last time I saw this challenge.
Surprise I got the first one done in about five minutes as I recalled tactics I had developed the last time I tried the exercise. She had barely settled in behind her desk when I yahooed I had it done. To her surprise it was correct and extremely quick.
Let shorten this story. Then we went to the next level and I was quick
and correct again. WOW I thought. Then the next three went together before she could get behind her desk to wait on me. It was an incredible performance difference since I tried it the first time long ago. So apparently this therapy stuff is actually doing some measurable good for me. Don't tell me I JUST GOT LUCKY.
How is that for some good news for a change? OFM
