One of the first things that Riza wrote was "Becky Kranz came by the other day to take care of me." That's our niece and I called her to see if she had visited when I was gone.
Many members of the nursing staff have names that match family members: Diane, Lisa, Becky, Paul, Paula -- even a Risa. I wondered if she had confused the nurse Becky with our niece. She told me that Rebecca had given her a bath (that might make for an uncomfortable moment at Thanksgiving) and when I asked if it wasn't the nurse Becky, she emphatically said no.
This morning we figured it out. Deborah, who has had her a few nights last week, looks quite a bit like my niece Rebecca. Riza said "That's our niece!"
She hears voices and names and sometimes thinks that people are in the hallway. She knows at some level that they are not there, that's why she tells me. All the names and all the voices are probably very confusing -- I know I have learned more new names in the last two weeks than all of last year.