Good Week for Jan

This past week we made the trip to Lawton, and had doctors appointments for Jan and she really had a pretty good week. It really hurts when you begin to see signs of things getting worse. Her case is different from all others I guess. She gets around pretty good, looks very normal sometimes. However I can't name one thing except drinking, swallowing and walking that she is able to do by herself. I know that sounds pretty bad. Consider, when she gets up, I have to get up. When she goes to the bathroom, I go with her. Unless she takes a nap in the afternoon, I surely can't. If she chooses to go outside, I have to go with her. She will eat sometimes but I always have to help her at some point. I think she forgets what she is doing. Where I go, she has to go, very little privacy except when she goes to bed. I now brush her teeth and she struggles with spitting and rinsing her mouth. She is losing control of those muscles. She wonders around the house doing nothing most of the time, but she will stand and stare at me and what I am doing, no questions, just staring. She can't get herself a drink and the light switch is not to be found. It must be her eyes.
Today we had an elder and one of our Church's ministers out for lunch and that has become something that we three look forward to. Jan is pretty much oblivious to what is going on, but today she jumped in with a sentence or two and surprised everyone. Also, she remembers the name of one of our friends that no one else can remember, his first name is Aubrey, everybody else calls him Buddy.