Well we did I!!! Mac got his hair washed this morning, my cousin suggested I put sheets or towels all around, on the floor. Well that is what I did before and did again, as well as plastic bags..BUT, the difference is this time I put the plastic garbage bag as a cape - made a hole in the bag and put over his head, last time I just put the bag around his neck. I also made a better plastic bag tucked into his plastic bib around him which allowed the water to go down into the sink. He cannot put his head back and down, so with warm water pouring all over the place from faceclothes - since I can't get a little hose with a spray..poor Mac was saying (not yelling) Hey!!! What the hell, " I would quickly put a dry facecloth over his face, kind of muffling his cries of hey hey. WEll it's not so great, and I didn't bring his hair dryer here, so it was drying his hair with towels, another hey hey and at last a hey nonny no and we were finished.ha.
It's been a kind of trying couple of days, especially yesterday, I was bringing Mac up on the elevator, I have probably mentioned the little lady who goes zooming around in her wheelchair saying "yella yella", apparently Arabic for - let's go or come-on - and other times its venez venez, well she always follows us when we walk or is at Mac's knees when he sits. Which is nerve-wracking as she can hurt him or make him fall when he walk so there I was protecting him and kind of shoving her away yesterday as we got on the elevator, normally she backs off at the elevator but this time she ploughed right in pushing me trying to push her and in the ensuing noise of her yelling and pushing was poor Mac yelling from the floor of the elevator, he had fallen. Luckily it was one of those falls where he kind of just sinks down and then goes flat on his back...I managed to push her out, had pushed the button and there we were going up with Mac on the floor.Managed to push two and go back down and yell for the preposees, surprise, they were right there, I guess they had heard all the commotion and the nurse was there as well. When we got Mac out, the nurse took his blood pressure and all was o.k. What an experience.
This morning, unlike yesterday morning, Mac was calling his breakfast (down there) a load of crap. Poor Marie the Nurse was upset, it's funny they are always so thrilled if he eats, and so down and looking cross, if he doesn't. I said I'd bring him up for coffee and fruit..but on the way he said he needed the bathroom..(ha, that's the problem - I thought)...So took him to the toilet off his room there. Then I thought, well I'm here I'll get the preposee to change him, daytime I have been doing it all along...well the preposee was there with the breakfast dishes on a dolly thing to take down stairs. when I told her Mac was on the toilet and needed help she said, I have to take the dishes down - I'll be back.I said I think the people here come before the dishes, but she left...By the time she came back I had almost finished changing and cleaning him up - "Look she said - see I'm back it didn't take me long. " I said it didn't take me long either but I do this all the time, this is the first time I've asked for help..(by the way as you can see my French is improving) She said in English (surprise) "I'm really sorry, I know the patient takes priority" and put her arm around me, and silly me - started to cry. But, it's such a pain to always try to understand their problems, as well as my own, it can be such a drag. In the meantime - it's poor Mac who suffers and right now I'm worried about two scratches and two bruises on his arm - although I know his thin skin does this easily it's still a concern.
Anyway, to close on a happier note, the sun is shining - Mac is happily listening to music, nodding his head and moving his feet in time, as his hair dries and I'm on the computer in the daytime...wow...g'bye.
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