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My dad and I procured a Wii for my mom for Christmas.

A few years back, she had two craniotomies and a coil procedure for three aneurysms, a gamma knife procedure to ablate an AVM. We're thrilled with her outcome (i.e. that she can walk, talk, do most self care, etc.), but since they went through her frontal lobe for one of the procedures, we've noticed that she has trouble with "process" and motivation.

She has always liked video games, and we thought perhaps she might build more synapses playing Super Mario Brothers than by watching Law and Order. We also thought that she might be inspired to get off the couch to do balance exercises by the Wii fit.

These are hopes, of course. Yesterday she did one yoga exercise. The one where you breathe deeply. Once.

Yay?

However Luca and I played extensively. (I suppose if her selfish daughter and son-in-law hadn't hogged the Nintendo so much, she might have been able to play more.... or so I suspect she will argue.)

We particularly liked the tennis and swordfighting games. Well, I especially liked the sword game. It was freaking awesome.

I'm a bit sore today though... Oops.

Luca and I toyed with the idea of eventually getting a Wii for ourselves. It's definitely a time suck though, and I worry that I REALLY would never graduate if I got one. On the other hand, I like that the Wii fit tracks your progress and teaches you how to do yoga poses and strength exercises that use your own body weight.

The running game was kind of lame though. Penalizing you for passing your pacer? Lame. We need to find a racing program so I can go head to head with Luca and kick his ass.