today is day 6 of mom's hospital stay. this is my day 6 of mom's hospital stay.
up at 6am (do you realize that i'm retired and 6am is long before my usual wake up time)

at the hospital at 7am. why? because the dr can be in anytime between 7am and 7pm
mother asks "how was church?" thus starts the days conversations about what day it is.
meet with the nurse (love her) and explain what dr hale had said the night before

leave at 9:30am to go to the dr myself. - annual physical - I'm great!!!!!

back to hospital at 11:30am. meet with the nurse again (love her) and explain again what dr hale had said the night before - are you getting the picture?

noon i made my escape to the hospital dinning room for lunch. when you consider that as an escape it should indicate my frame of mind.

12:20pm i'm called to come back upstairs to meet with the "hospital" doctor. he says to mom "are you ready to go home" i say "but, we were told that when she leaves here she has to go to rehab for 1 or 2 wks" he says "oh, i guess i didn't read that" and here we go again.

today she has set off the bed alarm 2xs. ask why her plant has 1 flower in it 4xs. told me that she doesn't like her coffee several times. (she doesn't have any coffee, but, i being the good daughter ask the nurse to please be sure that her coffee is fresh when they bring it) she just told me that Vicki, my sister, from new york, was coming today. she thinks that she may to at my house now and told me to call her.


i'm thankful that she doesn't remember any of this as soon as she's said or done it and the stories of her childhood are becoming a real important part of her day.