Ruth is glad to be regaining her ability to read and listen to music.
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I would read books chapter after chapter. I can read a couple of pages now. Which that kind of changed sometime around November. I remember, I could actually read a whole page. Which is just really odd, because I would read and I didn’t know what I was reading anymore. I couldn’t make sense of the words. And I also get very nauseous just reading things. So that’s going a little bit better … I just started actually listening to music again, because I couldn’t even listen to music. It was too much. The intake of information from the music would wear me out. So now I’m able to listen to some music at a certain level.
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