Day 13

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Day 13

Today was the most interesting day so far since has begun her

journey with Nutriiveda. I saw frustration from her like I have

never seen before! She was sitting at the computer working on her

typing when her fingers just would not work. She was not happy with

just using her pointer finger as in the past so as she kept trying to

use all her fingers like she sees us doing and had trouble with it

her frustration really came out. I have to keep reminding myself

that it's only day 13 and prior to this she didn't even try to use

the rest of her fingers. She looked at me and said " I need a kiss

please " so she kissed me on the cheek then she said " I need a hug

please " then she gave me a hug.

We worked on the computer for 90 minutes this morning but with

frustration most of the time. I then said lets go for a walk. We

have lived in our housing development now for 5 years and Mel has

never walked the 1 mile around our circle due to the hills in our

development. Mel doesn't mind going downhill but doesn't like

uphill. Today I told Mel we were going to tackle the hills and win.

That is just what we did. This gave Mel a new sense of hope as she

tackled the hills and won.

After we came back from the walk, I thought how could we get her

fingers to move more. Her sisters came up with the idea of making

bracelets for Christmas presents this year. We all headed to Hobby

Lobby and purchased everything to make the bracelets. While in the

store there was a very grumpy older gentlemen who probably didn't

want to be in the Hobby Lobby and Mel had been eyeing him for several

minutes. The next thing I know Mel taps him on the shoulder and

tells him to " be happy " and gives him a huge smile and waved goodbye

to him and told him goodbye. I looked at his expression and he

actually smiled a little. His wife on the other hand had a large

smile on her face.

Mel has said today every word that she knows and a few new words plus

ever sentence that she has learned how to motor plan plus a new

sentence today. Mel was looking for her shoes to put on and asked

her sister " teeters where are my shoes " very clear. What was so

funny was that Mel used her sisters nickname when asking. We all

like to call her sister teeters so that was very interesting to hear

Mel use her sister's nickname. Her sister did not answer quickly

enough for Mel so Mel answered her own question and said " at home " .

While in the car Mel's sister was playing with her IPhone and usually

Mel is sitting beside her reading her magazine but today Mel was

watching her sister the whole time play with

her phone with a smile and really interested in what she was doing

with her phone for the first time. We have a ITouch for Mel and have

been waiting for when she would show some interest so we are planning

on bringing that out tomorrow for her.

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