Today marks 3 weeks since my husband moved his mom into a local rest home.
The first weekend was so hard. She just sat in her room watching TV, refusing to acknowledge that anyone else was around her. She complained to my husband that she was in prison.
Yesterday he took her for a routine doctor visit. When they got back to the home, Mom is in charge. She first goes to the front desk and gives them the doctor paperwork, then she tells my husband she'll be back, she has to say hi to her friends. She went from staring at the TV in her room alone, to watching with others in the TV lounge. She's told my husband that he was right, she needed to do this. She even wants to go shopping for new clothes - this is a woman who was very reluctant to leave her house for any reason for a long time, now she wants to go out shopping.
All in 3 weeks.