Miracle!

I brought mom back at about 2:30pm today. I started to talk to her as usual, and I turned on the TV in the room.

At about 7pm when I was working on my computer in the living room, Jovelyn our domestic helper told me that mom cried while watching a TV programme. I was rather doubtful.

I went into mom's bedroom and started talking to her again. I asked her the same question I had asked the umpteenth time: "Mom, do you recognise me? If you do, blink your eyes." And, for a moment I thought my eyes trick me, she did! To be sure, I asked her a second time, and a third time, and without fail, she blinked her eyes! And she started to cry!

How elated I was, I just couldn't describe. I cried too, but it was tears of joy. Immediately I phoned Jane, who was with Cowen and her mother and on their way home.

It is simply a miracle. Barely five hours after stepping into the home, mom has managed to regain her memory of me! All the weeks of non-stop talking and singing at the hospital by her bedside, sometimes at the expense of the patient at the next bed, has finally paid off!

However, when Jane, Cowen and my mother-in-law returned, mom doesn't seem to recognise them all.

I guess we just have to take thing one step at a time.

Aaron