Grandma

My mom informed me I haven't updated in a while and so here I am making an update.
These past two weeks have had a lot happen- my grandmother was put in a nursing home and my cat, Angel, died unexpectedly. I also had the rough draft to the paper that will basically decide whether I graduate or not due. God must have been curious to see how I'd handle such enormously stressful events coming right before the due date of what I consider the most important assignment of this semester.
And believe it or not I did alright. I could have done better but I managed to turn my mood around and get what needed to be done finished and turned in. I still have some assignments I need to work on that are overdue but due to the circumstances I did pretty well. My therapist thinks so too- I even ended our session early this week.
Tonight Grandma and Mom picked me up unexpectedly to have dinner. Grandma wanted to see where I work and so we went to the LOFT and then went to Girodano's for dinner. I decided a little while ago that I needed to start asking Grandma as much as possible before she can't remember anything due to the Alzheimer's. I asked her what it was like to live during World War II and then if she remembered the day the war was over. I asked her about how she met my Grandpa and how they named my mom and my uncle and aunt. Afterwards she admitted "It's too late." That's the first time since she's been diagnosed that she's admitted she's losing her memories. Or just perhaps her ability to express them. Mom stayed silent throughout but when Grandma left to go to the restroom she said Grandma only remembered about a third of the stories she told mom so she's going to write them down for me.
What's most important is that Grandma seems to like the nursing home now which she was so against when we found out. And she's really happy her dog Panda is going to be staying with Aunt Joy who has Millie and Duffie for Panda to play with. She's really taking it so much better now which is really nice to see. I'll see her again Sunday and hopefully see the nursing home. Apparently, her roommate speaks Polish so maybe I'll learn how to say hello before then.