My sister, JJ, and her musical family "A Side of Taylors" as they are known on stage, stopped by the hospital to give Dad his own private bedside concert. JJ wrote the following...
"Steve is the most patient man ever! Really.
We were working through the alphabet with him and he was trying to tell us he was "still too low" after being repositioned. We had an extra letter or 2 thrown in and could NOT make out the phrase. He totally rolled his eyes! We caught it and called him out. Chris admitted that he would be awful on Wheel of Fortune. But Steve was willing to keep trying, as were we, and we finally got there. He spelled "Help me sit up." He was too far down in bed so we helped reposition him.
The mental and physical energy Steve spends in communicating has to exhaust him. And those deciphering bedside receive a large inoculation of humility and patience. Bless Nancy for doing this all day, every day. What we wouldn't do to communicate with our loved ones.
We loved seeing the new movement with the eye-roll. Not so much from our teenage daughter, but from Steve we'll take it any day!" - JJ Taylor
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