Work week over
I am off for awhile now, because I am taking a small vacation. Well really not going anywhere but just off. The last two has has been mentally draining and I am glad to get a break. We have one new man. I am beginning to think the room 18 in the nursing home where I work needs a exorcism. The man that started this all out was a horrible man, demanding self centered, would not listen to anything you had to say, and acussed everybody from stealing from him, hated his son, jsut a over all mean man. Then he died. Shortly after we got another man in that room, he wouldn't listen to anything you had to say yelled and wanted you to be there right when he rang the bell. Ended up more on the floor than in the bed, he was a big man so I think he sat on the floor rather than falling. I hurt my back again trying to get this big man off the floor(which acted completely helpless when you went to help him) He went home . So now we got this guy that will not stayed clothed and ends up urinating all over the place. I really feel bad for this man because when he came to us he just didn't have too much of a mind left. I don't know whether he had a stoke, he is in heart failure. He has been awake for the last two nights and he needs some rest.......Which reminds me of this man called Mr. Trueblood. I was working in a nursing home in Cour D' Lene, Idaho. He was pleasently confused eacj day was a new day for him.(like the movie groundhog day). Anyway after I got report I went to check up on my patients and hear this comotion coming from down the hall. I could here this woman saying get out of my room. As I entered the room there was Mr. Trueblood standing at the bottom of her bed dressed in nothing but his birthday suit. He was on the room for a friendly little visit and didn't even realize he was naked, until as I was directing him back to his room I happen to mention that he didn't have any clothes on. He stops looks down at his body, and says well I don't, do I? I guess I better get some on then. He use to walk up and down the hallway meeting and greeting people like he was on a street in his neighborhood. I just thought he was so cute. Never mean at all, the last thing I can remember about him before I left that job is at a Christmas party he was up dancing and if he didn;t have anybody to dance with he would dance by himself. He was the life of the party, too bad that there isn't as many people like him when you get to be that age. He was in his 90's. I say he is dead by now. Also one more thing about him that I remember my then husband came to pick me up from work and he was talking to Mr. Trueblood, because Mr. Trueblood consider himeself a meeter and greeter kind of guy. He told my then husband after talking to him for awhile to come and visit him anytime and if he did't answer the door just throw a rock at the window.Just one of those people that you come across in your life that stays in your mind. My son has not contacted since the last email, he is busy moving into another house and hopefully after he gets settled he will start thinking about all he has said to me. Maybe not, but I am going to leave it up to him. Then last week my daughter calls, I was talking to her about her brother and I repeated some things that her brother had said about her, she started crying, I started crying, the her phone started going dead so we didn;t get a chance to finish talking things through. She only has a pay as you go cell phone and if I call her she gets charged for it, so she goes over her boyfriend mother house and calls me then I call her right back because it is so much cheaper for me to call her. I have Skype on the computer and I can talk for an hour to the USA and it cost under 1.00. If you call computer to computer it's free. Anyway I shouldn't have told her the things her brother said about her and I just wished I could shut my big month at times. That was completely thoughtless on my part. For some resaon she looks up to him some bond that happen in their childhood and he has been othing but a jerk to her. He did do one nice thing got her a cell phone and paid her bill for about two years, but that came with a price, she had to listen to him about her being on welfare and she needed to do this and that, while his electicity was being cut off every month because he would spend his money on other things before paying his bills. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. I miss Khristy when we did have a relationship she was the buffer between her brother and sister. Khristy I love you and wish things could have been different between us before you died. I really felt bad because I didn't call you or write you back when you set me the Christmas card and letter before you went back to Florida and nobody knew where you were to get in contact with you. I know you where hurting becaue you didn't have your children with you, but we could have worked out some other way. I know your looking down on me and saying mom you messed up with telling Jessica that but Jessica is a very loving girl and she will bounce back. Just try to think before you speak.....Point taken
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Enjoy your time away. Love and hugs Cathy