Neighbour and best friend went to visit ... and for the first time, mom asked for her smokes.
Uh-oh ...
N/BF told her she is not allowed to smoke in hospital. Mom said she'd had a smoke a couple of days ago, which a "kinder neighbour" had brought to her ...
Mom also said her knee feels fine and has told her nice doctor that she can go home now because she has N/BF and Other Neighbour/Good Friend to help her. Um... just a couple of problems with that ... first of all, N/GF is nearly 10 years older than mom (although, not to be cruel, if you put them side by side, you'd think N/GF is the younger of the two ...). And secondly, during this same visit, mom had slid down in the bed and couldn't get re-adjusted even with N/BF's help. It took two nurses to get her situated more comfortably.
And thirdly, of course, although I can't think of a polite way to say this (to mom), N/BF and ON/GF have their own lives and cannot spend their days hanging around mom's house waiting to help her. I will be there as of next week, but at her current level of mobility, it would still require a second person to help her with any mobility matters at all. Add to that the fact I am not trained in providing mobility help ...
This bodes for some not-good scenes in the foreseeable future.
Uh-oh ...
N/BF told her she is not allowed to smoke in hospital. Mom said she'd had a smoke a couple of days ago, which a "kinder neighbour" had brought to her ...
Mom also said her knee feels fine and has told her nice doctor that she can go home now because she has N/BF and Other Neighbour/Good Friend to help her. Um... just a couple of problems with that ... first of all, N/GF is nearly 10 years older than mom (although, not to be cruel, if you put them side by side, you'd think N/GF is the younger of the two ...). And secondly, during this same visit, mom had slid down in the bed and couldn't get re-adjusted even with N/BF's help. It took two nurses to get her situated more comfortably.
And thirdly, of course, although I can't think of a polite way to say this (to mom), N/BF and ON/GF have their own lives and cannot spend their days hanging around mom's house waiting to help her. I will be there as of next week, but at her current level of mobility, it would still require a second person to help her with any mobility matters at all. Add to that the fact I am not trained in providing mobility help ...
This bodes for some not-good scenes in the foreseeable future.
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