Little Accident

Tuesday, January 24th, 2017
Everyone was seated when I arrived, even Jacquie.  Brieden was playing the piano.
Jacquie got the care aide to pour me a cup of tea.  Mom had already had her beverages and had poured her tea into an empty cup.  I poured the tea back into her mug and added milk.
Jacquie and Donna sang while we waited for our dinner.  I noticed that Edward was not wearing his hat and pointed this out to Jacquie.  Jacquie asked him about his hat using lots of gestures.  Edward said he forgot.  This floored me.  This was the first time I heard him speak.  Jacquie says he's deaf.
Mom had a good appetite.  She ate everything.  We had breaded baked fish with tartar sauce, rice and cooked carrots.  Dessert was a berry cobbler.  Mom and I shared her cobbler.  Everyone enjoyed the meal.  Edward's meal looked slightly different.
Jacquie got two oranges.  She cut one up to share with everyone.  Edward was happy to have a piece of orange.  Everyone was having a nice time just being together at the table.
We left the table shortly after Jacquie.  I helped her with her sweater and coat and she went off for a smoke.  Suddenly mom said she had to take a pee.  We sped off ahead of Donna.  Mom was walking fast, but not quite running.  She was taking a long time in the washroom.  When she came out I asked her to sit on the bed so I could comb her hair.  She suddenly stood up again.  She did this twice.  It turned out she had peed her pants.  Her underwear was slightly stained, but there was more on her pants.  I had her change.
There were a lot of dirty underpants in her drawer.  I'll have to buy more.  Since Saturday, she must have gone through 5 pairs.  I found another pair of pee smelling trousers in her drawer.
Donna went to watch television with Michael.  Anna came to find us.  I had just given mom an orange so I gave one to Anna and one to Barbara.  They like the Clementines because they are easy to peel.
Then we went off to play card bingo.  Ming has been away for like a week.  Jacquie said he hurt his back.  I got Anna to round up Michael and Donna.  Shanta gave me a very nice orange which I left in mom's room.  I got Michael to deal the cards.  At first he didn't know what to do, but Donna helped him.  I told him to give each player 10 cards and he proceeded to count out 10 cards for Donna, but she told him to give one card each and go around the table.  I think he enjoyed dealing.
Mom won 3 times, Donna won once and Anna won two times.  Anna wanted to play another game.
I went back to the room to collect my things.  Barbara told me that there was a woman at her table and she would save her food for her sons.  This woman had two sons who were developmentally delayed.  Barbara wished someone would tell her that this was going to be her forever home and that she didn't have to look after her sons any more.  Barbara said that she had met the daughter and that she was not nice to her mother.  I wonder if it's because her mother loved the sons more or maybe she is taking care of her brothers now.
Barbara said her daughter who lives in Courtenay calls her every night.  Her other children live in Vancouver and Burnaby.
She asked me to pass her earphones and the remote for her television.  She always says that mom is sweet.