Joanie likes art

Joanie continues to improve. I spent some time with her Wednesday afternoon. When Bonnie arrived to visit, I returned to school to grade papers. In the early evening I returned to find her sitting in a chair eating supper. That of course is a huge change from one week ago when she was in ICU. She had prepared another list of things I needed to bring from home to make her stay more comfortable or to allow her to dress for therapy. Since her left arm is strapped to her body, many common tasks remain challenging.

Thursday morning I again dropped some things off in her room and watched her sleep for a few moments before I left on a field trip to San Francisco and the King Tut exhibit. The students did well and may have enjoyed viewing objects made about 3500 years ago! By the time I got to her room at about 6:45 PM, she was sitting in a lounge talking with four of her good friends about art. This group gets together monthly to encourage each other to work on art. Joanie had verbalized on Wednesday that she regretted having missed their last gathering. I told her that Earlene had called and that they were planning on bringing the meeting to her. She was jazzed and enjoyed thinking about that for the next day. I stopped by for a minute to see her before I drove home, knowing that she was more interested in her art meeting that seeing me at the moment.