Emergency

Sunday, February 12, 2017
Mom and Donna were in their room.  They had just come back from arm class.
Donna chatted briefly with Barbara.  Barbara was asking how Donna could have been a teacher with such a tiny voice.  Donna said it wasn't necessary to yell.  Barbara is hard of hearing.
I took mom and Donna for a little walk since dinner was at 5:00 and it was still only 4:00.  We went for a walk in another wing.  A nurse stopped us and told us some people were very ill in that wing and that we should stay away.
So we went to the fish tank room to look at the fish, then we sat on the couch to watch some television.  Then Donna said she had to go to the washroom and so did mom so we all went back to the room.
I tidied up mom's drawer.  Mom often uses her laundry hamper as a garbage can.  I guess I could get another receptacle without a lid.  But then, I don't think the staff would empty it and it could be a mouse problem.  There were some underpants with skid marks so I put them in the communal laundry hamper.  There was also a pair of clean underwear that I didn't recognize.  I left them at the nurses' station.
We went to sit at the dinner table at approx. 4:40.  The drinks were laid out.  I noticed that Edward's spot looked messy.  He had also used mom's napkin to wipe up a spill.  Donna said he would probably come back at dinner.  She said he thought he had Alzheimer's.  I know he seems to be hard of hearing.  I asked him how old he was and using his fingers, it looked like he was telling me that he was 97.  Holy cow!
The person who had been serving coffee and tea seemed to have disappeared but she had left the cart so I helped myself.  Donna, Jacquie and Edward are coffee drinkers and mom and I drink tea.
We had baked chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy and mixed veggies.  Dessert was an apple crumble.  Mom's chicken came chopped up.  I got a couple of orange slices from the fruit lady.
 Jacquie was a now show.  Ailene came in late.  Someone else was sitting in her place at her table, so the care aide put her on the other side of the table.  She seemed fine with it.
After dinner we walked around a bit.  Two ambulance attendants came with a gurney as we walked out to the lobby.  Mom and Donna had to use the toilet so we headed back to their room, but there was a traffic jam at the nurses' station so we had to wait.  The ambulance attendants wanted the area cleared out, but kitchen staff had to move trays and we had to use the washroom.
The ambulance was for Shanta.  Poor thing.  She has something wrong with her lungs.  I wonder if her son and daughter-in-law smoke.
Barbara had her television on and it was very loud.  I wonder if her earphones are broken?
Mom, Donna and I went to play card bingo.  The fish tank room was full of people in wheelchairs so we went back to the dining room.  Michael and Anna joined us as well.  Anna is so loud when she wins.  She won 4 times as did Donna.  Everyone complains that Anna is too loud, but Anna is oblivious.