Tuesday, 1 November 2016

She put pudding on her food.

Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016
Dinner was already served when I arrived.  Mom had already started eating.  She hadn't even touched her drinks yet.  We had baked fish with carrots and mashed potato.  Mom didn't eat her dessert.  We shared Jacquie's cut up orange chunks.  Mom said she didn't want to eat the orange, but she ate all the orange pieces I gave her.  She didn't eat her dessert.
Jacquie said that mom had dumped her dessert pudding onto her main meal the other day.  I guess mom must have thought it was some sauce or gravy.  Jacquie said she ate everything.  Mom has been eating well lately.  I wonder if she's not eating her dessert because she was embarrassed.
I lingered at the table because I wanted to finish my tea.  Then I returned my chair to the TV room.  When I got back mom was still drinking her tea.  I thought she was going to leave, but she just sat there lingering over her tea just like I had done.
I went through mom's drawers.  I found two pairs of underpants wrapped in individual packages of paper towels.  We opened them.  They seemed used, so I put them in the laundry hamper.  There was garbage in mom's laundry hamper:  a banana peel, some wet stuff and some paper products.  I cleaned it out.  I got mom to sniff her clothes to see if they were clean.  I think her sense of smell is still okay.  I double-checked.
Mom still has phlegm and mucous.  Her nose isn't runny.
I noticed Shanta was wearing a mask.  She has a cold too.
Donna won a bag of chips at card bingo.  Shanta won one as well.  She gave me her bag.
After card bingo, mom and I looked at her photo book and Donna went to watch the news.
Later we all sat with Shanta in the fish tank room.

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