Third year Day 199 - Monday June 30, 2014

Bridgett had speech therapy today with Lynn and her student Jenny.  She made it through almost the entire appointment before she finally started to get feeling poorly.  At the point when she started feeling bad she had just been showing Lynn how to do lunges and explaining some technique.  Lynn was impressed with her ability to explain and demonstrate etc.  Then Lynn talked to her about interrupting people.  She said that in conversation that Bridgett needed to be careful not to interrupt.  At this moment, almost precisely, Bridgett suddenly stood up and started to feel horrible.  Her neck hurt and she said that she needed to do some walking.  Afterwards I talked to Faith about this experience and she talked to Bridgett.  Faith then told me that Bridgett was upset because she doesn't like to interrupt, but with her memory issues, if she doesn't interrupt sometimes she forgets what she wants to say and it might be important.  When we talked to her about writing down her questions for later, Faith pointed out that often she begins a sentence and then forget her thought before she can get the entire sentence written down.  So, this whole line of discussion was very overwhelming to her and that's why she just kind of shut down.  Also at this time Lynn had talked to her about being more independent, and Faith said that right now with her memory issues she is very dependent on me for her "second brain" and then "pushing" her for independence is scaring her very much.  I understand this completely, and hopefully when I talk to Lynn about it she will understand too.  We need to have these appointments be productive, not counterproductive!