2008-03-05 
 

a visit to the vineyard

Saw Gram today for the first time since last week. She seems pretty much the same as when I saw her last. Not sure if that means she's reached her baseline or not. Still not sure where it was too be honest, but ever since the doctors kept asking in the hospital, I've been watching closely to try and figure out just where it is for her now.

Today I brought by a coffee table book filled with pictures of New England. We flipped through it together and she seemed pretty happy to look at the pictures and read the blurbs...although she often has trouble getting from one line to the next and figuring out which picture is being referenced. On one page there's a few pictures of Martha's Vineyard. I asked if she'd ever been and found out that she, Jan and Jan's daughter had gone for a girls weekend away recently. (Well, in her mind it was recent, in reality though it would be a few decades back when Jan was still alive.) We flipped the page and shhe pointed to a picture in the book and said they finally found a place to stay in one of those houses. (It was a Nantucket scene this time, but they probably do look similar.) The others got to go out shopping, but Gram stayed in the room since she had a cold. The next day they took the ferry back to Falmouth and the husbands picked them up.

That's all. There's no great meaning in this tale, just a random memory that popped up today that I don't want to forget hearing about. It's cliche to say, but it bears repeating: I never asked enough questions of her back when she had the ability to give me more detailed answers.

Labels: dose of mikey, memory lane

* posted by me at 4:36 PM

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