Day 182 - Wednesday June 13, 2012--26 weeks since the accident

It's fun to see the mind work and how the memory unfolds.  Amazing as I've said many times!  Today when we were playing cards Bridgett discarded a jack of diamonds and said watch out for the queen of spades.  Now, our family has always played pinochle, but we haven't even tried since the wreck, since it is much more complicated, with meld and bidding etc.  I said what is that in cards--jack of diamonds and queen of spades and she said a marriage.  I said not a marriage but pinochle and said that a marriage is a queen and king of a suit.  Oh yes she said.  So apparently now her mind is remembering pinochle (maybe in time for reunion!).  I don't think we will even try for a while, but remembering is the first step!  Bridgett regularly (and casually) tells me the way to go when we are driving home.  It used to be that whenever you asked her a question, she answered with her inflection as a question--how old are you?  22?  I guess because she was never really sure that she was right about anything, since she couldn't remember (and she was regularly wrong since she couldn't remember!).  Now when you ask her things she answers like she should--a definite.  Someone was talking about favorite colors and she said mine is orange (right!) and before this she had no idea.  The speech therapist in Utah was always amazed that Bridgett's amnesia was so profound that she didn't even know what things she liked or didn't like.  The only definite sounding answers to questions she had were about moral issues (where she would be answering things about what she would or wouldn't do) or when she answered questions and she would say--that just makes sense.  We have the Kindle now that we got from a friend on Sunday and it has Twilight on it.  Now, when Twilight first came out as a book, Bridgett and her cousin Heather each got a copy and read it like crazy and really loved it.  That was long before the Twilight craze.  Anyway, yesterday Bridgett started reading Twilight on the Kindle and really liked it.  It was so cute to see her get so excited when things happened.  Today when I was gone to town with Stephany for an appointment Arrianne sat and let Bridgett do some reading.  Bridgett was so into the story that she read for an hour!  Later in the evening when we took Stephany to Mutual we sat in the car and waited for her and Bridgett read even more of the story.  It's so neat seeing her have the opportunity to read with the larger print, really loving what she is reading and wanting to read so much!  Lately she has been able to read regular print (amazing!) but her eyes get extremely fatigued doing it and she has to stop after only a paragraph or so.  I love Kindle and the feature where you can increase the font!  Aren't we so blessed to live in this day and age!