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Best part is I get to go get her and bring her back to Indy for five days.  Due to medicaid rules, she can’t be away from the facility for more than five days at a time, and only on special occasions like holidays and the like…Anyway, I’m cleared (from work) to go get her this coming Tuesday, then I have to have her back in Carbondale no later than Saturday at midnight (I’ll really have to have her there by bedtime which is about 9-10pm as her evening-time meds knock her out pretty fast, plus I gotta four-hour drive back to Indy that night).<p>Ima leave at about 4am Indy time to get there about when she should be waking up, then bring her back to Indy by about lunchtime or early afternoon anyway so that we have the rest of the day to hang with Cooper.  If I could rig his carseat to recline more so he could sleep in the car, id consider bringing him, but the car (1991 BMW 325i) is pretty small (and his seat is pretty huge) and there’s not much room as it is.I’m excited!

Ok.  Must. Update. More.Been for at least two more visits since last update.  She’s doing pretty well.  The time before the last time, I got there and she acted like I had never been there before.  She just didn’t remember me ever being there.  It was pretty disturbing to say the least since I’m there at least twice a month.  But she seemed to remember once I prompted her a little bit.Some parts of her memory seem to be improving.  She seems to remember the hotel room number better each time we stay in a new room.  Of course the room number changes each time but these last two times she seemed to have far less trouble remembering the number when she’d go out to have a smoke.OH GOD I WISH SHE COULD/WOULD STOP SMOKING!Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE smokes at her little apartment house, staff and other patients, so it would be extremely hard for her to stop while she is living there.  I’d say impossible, knowing Jenna’s personality.My mom is here in town and we went to visit Jenna for a long weekend over the Fourth holiday, and we had an awesome time with Cooper.  We went to chuck-e-cheese, saw a lot of fireworks (midwesterners KNOW how to blow stuff up!) and overall had a great time.She had a couple of mild “outbursts” but nothing serious, like it used to be.  More later!