Third year Day 213 - Monday July 14, 2014

Today was speech therapy.  After we parked and were headed into the hospital building where Lynne's office is, Bridgett suddenly stopped and said, hey, something is happening to my eyes!  Sometimes I'm seeing better!  Is my eye less crossed?  I looked at it and it looked the same; nevertheless, something must be happening in the eye--brain protocol at work??  I spoke to Lynne and asked if we could have the appointment without the lights on and only the light from the windows  Lynne's office is very light with a lot of windows in it and so plenty of light without the fluorescent lights on.  Faith speculates that the fluorescent lights flicker and add to Bridgett's eventual headache after a time.  BTW, it seemed to help; at least Bridgett did great during the appointment and made it to the very end with no problems.  Anyway, back to the appointment itself.  Lynne looked over Bridgett's journal, asking questions to see if Bridgett could remember things that happened during the week.  She came to yesterday's entry about Mark telling stories and when Lynne asked Bridgett about what stories he told, she immediately began laughing and laughing.  She tried to tell the story though her laughter, and did a pretty good job of remembering the details.  That was great!  During the therapy session, Lynne had Bridgett work with some blocks that she called the tower test.  There are three wooden posts, with rings on some of the posts--some large rings and some small.  Next, there was a series of pictures and Bridgett had to match the configuration of the rings to the picture, with the stipulation that you couldn't put a large ring on top of a small ring when you moved them.  She was able to do several of these and had a great time doing it.  Bridgett said afterwards, we need to get one of those to play--it was FUN!  I googled and found a game that looks the same, called Tower of Hanoi.  Maybe I will have to order it.  However, it probably wouldn't have the pictures that you are supposed to match.  Hmmmmm.........