A new idea

https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=UmwISj7CHk8&video_referrer=watch
My sample video I iqm making for Kay
I am trying a new idea that I hope will sort of fill in when I am not able to make a daily visit to see Kay.  I want to her to feel in contact when  I am not here to visit her.  I tried playing home movies and they did not hold her interest for her to keep watching.   Probably they move too fast and she is not able to understand what is going on. The people in the movies are no longer  in her memory in that form. The only thing she really understands and recognizes are people who she sees constantly. The people there at the facility and me when I visit her.  I know that because she smiles when she sees me immediately  and she greets the staff when she sees them.  .  She also seems to recognize the people there where she lives.  everything familiar she recognizes. To try to fill in when I have to miss a visit or  I am creating a video of current videos of me and still pictures that show close up pictures of me.  I showed her the short 2 minute video I made today and she did watch it. Now I need to find someone to do some video of me to put in the one I am making for her.  Old movies will not work.  Only near or current ones will work. Ones  that show me at the age  I am now. 

A birthday Party at her place today.  Once a month they have a birthday party for everyone who has a BD that month.  She drank the glass of aid and  then ate her piece of cake and the half of mine I left.  So she must have been hungry.  This was at 2 pm so she must not have eaten much at noon if anything at all. When we got out of the elevator at Kay's floor a caregiver was waiting with a two layer cart of more cake to take down stairs and I am sure she had just had a bite out of one on the lower shelf.  The last thing this caregiver needed. Cake.    

A little old lady with long grey hair  about Kay's  size who has a bed in the room adjoining hers wandered in and started picking things off the floor.  I couldn't see what they were they were so small.   When she finished I picked up the trash can and offered it to her to throw the little pieces in.  She objected saying that they were not garbage.  I tried to convince her that they were garbage but she didn't agree.  So she sat down on the end of Kay's bed after asking me it was ok.  In a little while it was  time to go home so I turned to Kay and told her I was going home.  She took that OK and we had a kiss.  I turned to go by the little old lady and she looked like she wanted one too so I gave her a peck on the lips too.  This little lady is alone most of the time. She wanders around not seemingly able to do anything but wander. I have seen her many times and thought that she was not able to communicate. The other day I  had a occasion to speak to her and she was able to respond.  Today was the second time I had interaction with her and it seems she is more able to communicate than  I thought.  I will try to talk with her.  I think everyone there likes people to talk to them.  But this today was a surprise as she seemed so out of it.     I asked one of the caregivers if she ever has visitors and she said she thought so.

The last evidence we had from Kay's  trip  east with Edith disappeared yesterday.  I had a soup bowl Kay bought when she went back east with Edith.  It was a quality bowl by a well known maker of ceramic china. It was the last as all the others have been broken.  A guy at our table brought me some corn on the cob and  cooked in the microwave.  Of course the corn is hot coming out of the microwave so  laying it in a bowl I took it down stairs to give to the people there in the dining room.  I finished eating and left the bowl with them.   When they finished eating they left the bowl instead of taking it to their room and giving it back to me.  Of course the people cleaning up saw it was not theirs and assumed it was trash and of course threw it out in the garbage.
Today, forgetting to do it yesterday, I asked if they had taken the bowl up to their room to give it to me.  This was the first time the thought came to them that they should have taken the bowl to their room to give to me.  Of course the guy was all apologetic and said he would go to the kitchen and get it back. I knew that was idiotic   but he went and came back empty handed of course.   I have plenty of other bowls but that was a special bowl and I am a little put out. My fault though because I should not have left it in the first place. The guy at the table is sort of a lay preacher and conducts a bible story hour once a week.  My mother would think he is sinful.  She did not believe in dancing, smoking, gambling and playing cards.  I think he does all these. Heck, I dont gamble. I don't like to lose money.