Afternoon tea

Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Came in at 2:05.  I didn't see mom or Donna in the television room or in the dining room.  I saw Michael in the hallway.  Mom was standing in the doorway of her room.  Donna was just coming out of the washroom.  They were probably watching the afternoon movie.
I asked what had happened to Mary.  Donna said that she had passed away.  She seemed okay to me, but then I haven't seen her for some time.
Donna went back to see the movie.  I got mom to comb her hair.  I put her clean laundry in her drawers and put her dirty clothes in my bag.  Her underpants were poopie so I put them in the communal laundry.
Barbara was sleeping in her wheelchair.  I told her it was time for coffee.  She asked me to pick up her sunglasses from the floor.  Then she put on some really red lipstick.  It looks good on her.
Mom and I went to the dining room for coffee.  Michael was already sitting at a table so we joined him.  I set a chair for Donna who was watching the movie in the TV room.
Mom tried to give Michael her tea, but explained that Michael's coffee was coming.  Donna joined us.  She has her coffee black.  Today the snack was a cheese biscuit.  I gave everyone a mandarin orange that Sumi had brought for mom.  Barbara wanted to sit beside mom.  She knows mom's name. She said that when her leg hurts at night, mom comes and touches it.  She says mom is so sweet.
Barbara has trouble hearing and she is also blind in one eye.
Michael said he had gone out to the dog park.  He said a little dog was chasing a big dog.  Barbara said her family always had a dog growing up.  Her last dog was a Shitzu.  He only weighed 10 pounds.  Michael said he liked all dogs except for Chihuahuas.  Donna talked about her dogs.  One of them was a dachshund.  Mom just smiled.
Barbara and Michael had both lived in New Westminster.  Barbara was born in Victoria, but raised in New Westminster.  She said she worked on front street.  She said once the fishermen were on strike. Her sister asked if she could buy a fish and the fisherman said gave them two big fish.  She said they were very heavy.  Michael said he lived on Royal street.  They said they had good lives.
Donna talked about how she only weighed 3 lbs when she was born and she was in the newspaper.
The exercise lady came to round up the residents for strength training.  Mom didn't want to leave Barbara at the table, but Barbara didn't want to participate.
In the end mom and Donna were doing their exercises.  Mom was counting with gusto as she lifted her weights.  She wasn't following exactly, but she was participating.