Nearing The End

  I remember near the end of my time at Stallworth. we would continue to work on my arm and leg , and speech therapy. We also started working on things for daily living. We tried to learn to get in and out of the bathtub? No, let me correct that! We were trying to get on and off a shower chair in the bathtub. I would give just about anything to get in a tub of water and soak! We were taken to a mock living room, dining room, and kitchen.  They got the ingredients for each of us to cook something? I chose to make Ooey Gooey Butter Cookies. I remember telling Dr. O'Duffy about them the day before I was suppose to bake them and she was explaining what to eat and what not to eat. and these didn't sound healthy. Of course she is a beautiful  intelligent tall lanky woman. To me she always dressed like she was stuck in the 70's. At the time I found it interesting. The next day she came to make rounds and I was in making my cookies. She came in just as I was fixing to take out the first batch. First she tried to tell the cookies were not done? I explained to her that was the way they were suppose to look. We took the cookies out. needless to say, "the these don't sound good for you" went out the window! She ate 3 and took 2 or 3 with her and wanted the recipe. I could do nothing but laugh! I realized  that some of the things I enjoyed doing before the stroke were not going to be easy or maybe not possible? I would for sure have to figure out different ways to do things. In my mind at this time things were so jumbled that I couldn't figure it out!  I was worried about too many things to really concentrate even if I could concentrate! Thinking and reasoning at this time was still very difficult.