A wonderful gift: Mom was able to have a normal day for Christmas.

Mom is eating normally, has normal conversations, and is able to get around by herself with a walker.  She admits to having bad short-term memory, but it does not seem to be consistently bad.

Normality, and lack of anything special, is a wonderful gift that is not appreciated until it has been missing for a while.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Mom is back home!

Mom is eating normal food, and sleeping at home for the first time tonight since 10/12/2013.
Dad is somewhat over protective and nervous, but I can tell he is very glad Mom is home.
Mom is also very glad to be home.

A nurse is to visit tomorrow (Saturday 12/07) to evaluate how Mom is doing, and if anything else is needed for her.

From Dad: Sarah Abbey to come home Friday

sarah abbey is to come home friday afternoon to finish her recovery
thank you for all of your prayers and i hope she will recover fully God willing
thanks again

Results and data from a small test of phone GPS navigation app data usage

Off-board, cloud based cell phone GPS navigation takes around 1 to 15 megs per trip, with wide variation based on pre-caching, length of route, and other unknown factors.

A limited test on iOS shows Apple Maps and Google Maps to both have under 0.5 megabyte data usage for most navigation steps.
It seems on iOS, Apple Maps has a less data usage compared to Google Maps.  However, it is not a large enough difference, in my opinion, to affect most users.

Scout by Telenav has consistently higher usage, but again it is debatable if over a month if it would add up to enough to affect any users.

The main item to note is if a user wants to save mobile data usage, preplanning and letting system precache data while on a WiFi connection is a worthwhile way to save a megabyte or two of data usage per trip.


Mom to come home Friday.

My Dad sent a message last night that Mom is to come home Friday afternoon, 12/6/2013.

Mom's status is good.

Mom seems physically good.

Aspects of her memory are good.  She remembers some things very well.   Some things she remembers only sometimes.  For instance she told it was Friday as part of a conversation.   Then five minutes later she was not sure if it was Friday or Saturday.

She found out that the order to discharge her has not yet been written.  However the nurse assured her that she could be released the same day it was written.

Mom wants to go home,  but did say she would recommend the place.

I give God thanks this Thanksgiving.