Thursday, August 1, 2024

 Thursday, August 1, 2024

   Shortly after I got home from my walk, Dean and Nina appeared at my door. They said they had been chasing me for a mile. I was walking so fast they couldn’t catch up. They would see me Saturday afternoon around 1:30 for a few rounds of Sorry.

  I had a session with Twin E this morning. I have known for a while that she doesn’t recognize the difference between b and d. today, I asked if she saw the difference between the letter c written right and wrong. No.  She does not discriminate between the orientation of those two shapes. Oh, boy.  She doesn’t see a difference between the lowercase print a written one way versus backward.  I started doing some work on it. She said there was no spinning, which might account for the confusion. I will have to check which side of her brain she uses. I designed an exercise with the letters written by hand in both directions. Her task will be to discriminate between the right and wrong presentation.  

        Damon called. Cylin and he were in town for breakfast and would call when they were home.  It took forever. I finally called him.  They were heading home.  They had stopped to shop for gifts.  I packed up my computer and the infrared pad  I bought but hadn’t used yet and headed up there. The plan was to hang out.

   We sat together in the living room until Damon disappeared. He was gone for so long that I thought he had gone down for a nap. Cylin said he was in the bathroom, answering texts from work. He finally came out. He planned to use the sauna. Did I want to come? Fortunately, I brought my bathing suit.

   We headed down to the sauna. Damon would have preferred a hot tub; he used one at home regularly.  He walked me down a roughhewn path to the pool and sauna, holding onto my hand. I have a fear of falling. All old people’s bones become brittle with age. I’m in greater danger because of the hardware in my hip, elbow, and shoulder. If those areas are impacted, they will break more easily because of the hard objects embedded in my body.

    Damon and I sat in the sauna. His tolerance was lower than mine. When it was just heating up, he opened the door to let in cool, fresh air. I stayed behind. He said to call when I wanted to go back up to the house. When I opened the door and came out, Damon was nowhere in sight. I thought he would be in the pool. I made my way back up to the house on my own.

   They left the house for the airport at 2 p.m. I was right behind them.  Jean, my friend, called. I pulled over to do the water meditation with her, which we do almost daily.  As I sat there, Damon’s rental car came up the road in the opposite direction. He had left his swim trunks in the dryer.  They passed me, going in the other direction as I completed the water meditation.

   While Damon and Cylin were only here for three days rather than the four they originally intended, it was a good visit. I always enjoy seeing them.

   I arrived home with enough leftover food to last for several days.