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Brendan - told a story about how he decided to teach 4 dementia patients how to play go fish.  He said one of them would ask for a five and go all the way around and then forgot they already asked for a five and ask again.  Then there was Ethel who kept asking for spades and he would have to remind her to ask for a number not the suit. Brendan said he had to know all the cards each of them had so he could help them, but it was really hard not to cheat that way.

Keera - Katie got her off of the bus today (well kind of-she was there, but Keera had to ring the doorbell two times before Katie came to the door). I called her from the hospital to tell her that Grandpas was coming over at 4:30 so Katie could go somewhere.  I said, "do as much homework as you can before Grandpa gets there."  Her response, "Well, that wasn't my plan.  My plan was to watch tv."  It made me laugh out loud.

Just some levity among everything else going on.

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