Well there is no doubt about it now, Bill is so much better mid afternoon and onwards. I got in there late morning and he slept for quite a while. Then when he woke he wanted to get in his wheelchair and go walkabout. He gets restless. But it takes me about twenty solid minutes to get him up and off the bed and into that chair, properly shod, clothed, bathroomed and wrapped. Actually it maybe takes more like a half hour and by the end of it I am sweating and puffed like I had a total workout! But it is soooo worth it. He absolutely loves it up there in that garden and there is so little for him to enjoy anymore.
Later this afternoon Monte, April and Dorothy and I all ended up in one of the lounges with him. We chatted, laughed, told stories and jokes and April attempted to play the awful keyboard in there. Jeez it was funny. Finally Bill called Uncle and asked to be taken back to his room. He was tuckered out. So April and I took him back and managed to get him into his bed and all tucked in. It gets harder and harder to leave him in that awful place.
The restaurant the Checkered Flag (named because it is so close to the speedway) has become our kitchen away from kitchen. They have a lovely menu of comfort homey food like liver and onions, roast beef dinner, shepherd's pie, seafood casserole, fish and chips, a plethora of sandwich choices etc.
And, tonight they had flyers up everywhere for turkey dinner this week end. So I made a few calls and we will be having thirteen to turkey dinner this week end! And its all family. Jen and her boys from Alta., Aryn and Bradley, April and Myles, Dorothy and Emily and Austin, Monte and me. I am so excited. I do believe this will be the first time in my history that I am having turkey dinner on Thanksgiving and I am not cooking it! So I made reservations and I am totally looking forward to it.
Now its bedtime, I am nodding as I type. Parker is bashing my arm asking to go out for his last ablution…TTYL
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