"Quaker Meetings" and "Tapping Out"

Mom just keeps coming up with these cute things I have to share with you. 

She said that at physical therapy today when she kept talking so much, she set up a code-word for "shut up" with the therapists.  If they say, "Quaker Meeting, Carol", she's supposed to hush and stop talking and give their ears a rest.

Also, she had a recent talk with Rachel's husband, Dan, that she keeps talking about.  Dan is a professional fighter (mixed martial arts) and she worries constantly that he will be hurt and his family needs him so much.  I'm not sure if she really had the conversation, but she says that he assured her that if the fight gets too bad and he needs it to stop so he won't get killed, he can "tap out", and the referee will stop the fight.  She has been so relieved about this that she tells everyone about it.  And she is now also using "tapping out" to mean "shut up, Carol".  Like she did when she hushed her own mouth, she's now tapping her arm, saying, "I need to tap out.  I'm talking to much again." 

Her awareness of her blather has increased over the last 2 days and she is more easy to converse with.  She still wants to run on and tell stories, but it is slowing a bit.  Her awareness is making it easier to hush her a bit, which I had to do at the cardiologist's office so he could talk, and she took it OK.  A week ago that would have set her off.

I'm hoping that will make the meeting at The James easier tomorrow.  I've been concerned that the doctor won't be able to have a meeting because Mom will keep trying to run off with the show, on some unrelated topic.

We have a family counsel with the neuro-oncologist at The James, tomorrow at 1:30.  Dad and Mom and I are going together in their Torrent, and Charlie's gang is going separately because they're going to visit Rachel and Amy wants to shop for bridesmaids dresses while she has the chance to get to Columbus.