Wednesday, October 17, 2012 Now I've got it straight

It seems that Mac has to search his memory every day, and every day he does find some little gem that lights up his life.  For the most part this happy memory is from life in the distant past, when he was young and in St. Henri, or when he was a teenager and going to Pine Beach and meeting me.

This evening he was looking at a little baby's t-shirt hanging on a little hanger...said whose is that.. I said that's for baby Finley (our great grandbaby) ...Oh yes he said, that's the little guy that always plays with the trains, he is always reaching in the toy box to play with the trains...well that is the memory of Olivier and Noah , now eleven and nine - our grandsons used to do that when they were babies, so rather than try and get that clear, i just let it ride and said speaking of trains...

There is the train station in St. Henri, right there in the picture (this pic is hanging on the wall in our bedroom)..Well he said, 'now I've got it straight...the trains don't run there anymore, but I remember and with that...he was off and running, talking about going to New Brunswick  (St. Johns) every summer - swimming in the cold ocean...and then back to his time in St. Henri.  Somehow one thing always triggers another, and swimming brought him round the circle again and back to leaving St. henri, and going swimming at Pine Beach...

And so round and round we go, but it is always interesting. A friend suggested I read to him from stories he would have heard when he was younger.  She tried this with her mom who also was an Alzheimer patient, in fact she read from a book in her mom's language Danish i believe, anyway it caused her mom to chuckle and enjoy...not sure what books he would enjoy, but definitely something with trains is always interesting we used to read about trains to the boys, so i'm going to give that a try some time.  Any suggestions are useful as we are not getting much traction now from crossword puzzles or jigsaw puzzles..and soon we won't be able to spend so much of our time walking.

Will finish this episode with a great find we had today on our walk,  a man was putting out for anyone to take, an aquarium with all the trimmings, stones, filter etc etc...it's a rectangle about 18 inches - - so we went home got the car  and guess what we have now, a new hobby???... g'nite