27.12.24 - On the fourth day of Christmas: Improvements everyday

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Ma has improved daily. Today, for instance, after I brought back the food, she got to cooking the kiam chye teng, making rice and making buah keluak. That was a whole entire hour of doing stuff. And she was brighter and happier and more positive. We laughed and chatted and I cannot tell you how happy I felt seeing her respond to the care and attention which she has received. I said the solution was physio and good food and she said, yes, I agree. It's the positivity which has been something else. 

Right.

So tonight I'm going to start designing the Libra calendar - I have four more images to go. It gets more and more complicated honestly has it gets higher and higher up the zodiac.

I feel relieved that Ma has responded so well to the things I have done for her. I have no doubt that if I hadn't come home she would have seriously deteriorated and then god knows where we will be? But to see her doing cooking and just getting up and fending for herself once more, when it started off with me worrying that we would really have to have a maid now... it has been such a relief.

I know I have said relief so many times...

It has taken me the best part of a week and a bit - well the first week never counts, but the last three or four days - to finally think about next year. So I think my next bit of writing will be be about what I do for next year and set these wheels in motion.


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