No, i answer to Mac, early this morning..at about 10 to 8 a.m. , I'll get you a cup of coffee.Come on please get up, the girl will be here to get you dressed, you are soaken, ..No..take off, get out of here" Well repeat those two lines for about one hour and you have a picture of me trying to get Mac up on a dull rainy Friday the 13th...Well by about 9;00 a.m. the preposee came back and i was able to tempt him again with coffee...then breakfast, and we were ready for the day...
A sad day as we scanned the obituaries to see if our friend Edith's name was there, and sure enough it was. Edith is the woman who sits with us at dinner when we go to the dining room, she and Alice are both at our table, and always sniping at each other like two old married people...poor Alice will surely miss Edith..who was 95, had about 3 days of not feeling well, so her daughter had her taken to the hospital as she was unable to stand yesterday, and there she died... We really don't know the cause, but Edith prided herself on never having a health problem, never taking pills, and was - unlike her friend Alice, not nosey and rude....Alice who had evey ailment - found this really hard to take, and gave back some answers to the degrading remarks that Alice made, but throughout all the barbs, Edith checked on alice every day, she made sure her mail was sent, she checked out on Alice's problems, and one would see her walking in her quick step way over to make sure that Alice, the hypochondriac as Edith called her...was okay....The funeral will take place on monday...so adieu Edith...
The day progressed fairly well, and since it was my day for respite, Mac was happy to see me when I returned, and hopefully he will continue to be happy tonight..hope hope, as .Actually the night before last, he had a session of about 30 minutes of swearing and trying to see what was what in the front room, this was about 3;00 a.m...who knows what his dream or what was going on in his head..but I managed to talk softly and tell him ;'you'd be better off checking the front room when the sun is shining, so come back to bed' and eventually he did... and the beat goes on, up and down...
Now we will go down and check out Alice and see how her day went...she will give me little chores do to around her room, get me to clear up her mess on the table..she is in a wheelchair...and is very fat...can't see out of one eye, fairly deaf ...and can't walk and therefore very very dependent...and hates it...so it really effects her mood, and she can become very demanding..but hey who can blame her, it must be awful..and now her buddy is gone...she told me she can't stand to see the cup and saucer at Edith's place, as it reminds her how Edith would say, 'i've poured my milk in now for pete's sake, what's keeping them, I want my tea"
The other person who is now missing, is jack..he was the one who shouted shut up to a poor woman who moans and groans...who used to sing "don't step on my blue suede shoes..', and told me 'hey as you get older you get sexier..'...his wife Aline, was always there for him and now she says, it's better for him as in the end he suffered so much...and so it goes, here's mac to say what's going on, so g'nite..
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