No light in the tunnel but I seem to have found a flashlight

Hi everyone. There are new and exciting things happening with Joyce that I need to share before a "senior moment" erases it all. Before the last injection I was seriously considering going to a two week/ three week cycle because I was having difficulty with Joyce during that third week. Well, as soon as I have it all figured out Joyce decides its time to mess with me and her third week was actually better than the first two. In addition, I have seen more good things the last three to four weeks than I saw the prior two months. Little things, things you wouldn't notice or recognize if you were visiting. I have related before how Joyce likes to walk. She reminds me of the first Mike the Tiger and how he used to pace the same route over and over again. She will start at the back door, traverse through the carport and down the driveway to the street, then turn around and retrace her steps all the way back to the back door. She will stick her head in looking for me then start over on another round trip. The exercise is good for her and it seems to calm her down when she walks a lot. As long as she is coming back, my philosophy is to let her walk freely. However she almost never closes the door which causes th A/C to run all the time. I close it everytime I can but she seems to like it open. On Tuesday I actually got her to close it 5 or 6 times. It has been over a year since she closed the door.
We received cards from her sisters Ann and Joan. She looked at the envelopes and said "Ann Leblanc" and "Joan Cocke" even though Joan had not written Cocke on the return address. She still knows those names.
In the grocery store the other day I asked her to put the empty basket up as we were walking out and she pushed it around the corner to where the buggies are kept and stowed it properly. She has not touched a basket in almost 2 years.
I went yesterday to get her hair done and she basically just sat there with her leg crossed for almost an hour. She usually is constantly trying to get up and walk around.
While to some observers these may seem trivial, to me, they are significant indicators that her disease is regressing and she is actually becoming better. I have resigned myself to the fact that fixing the aphasia will take a true miracle but with parts of the disease regressing I will be able to keep her here at home for a long, long time.

Thanks for all of your support

PAL