SUCH AN EMOTIONAL DAY!!

This day started frantically.  I was sitting here in my awesome purple room chair when the phone rang.  It was eight twenty in the mornin'.  It was a call telling me that my appliances would be arriving in ten minutes.  Holy Crap!!  I ran and booted Monte out of bed to go move the vehicles.  I then did the most herculean job of moving furniture, garbage cans, recycling, shit in the garage to make room for the dishwasher, swept up a gunny sack worth of dog hair, emptied out the fridge hole in the kitchen and got dressed.  In the nick of time I might add.  The fridge is fantastic.  It is so big they had to take it apart to get it in.  Pics below.

I then headed over to the hospital.  Bill was asleep so I just sat there with him and read.  I got a text from Joan, Jan, Frank and Russell that they were on the nine ferry on their way over to see him.  We had such a good time with them.  We bundled Bill up into a wheelchair and we went down to the cafeteria for lunch.  Eventually Bill tired out and I took him up to bed for a nap.  We all left him sleeping.  I came home then Monte and I went and got a bite to eat down below at the Checkered Flag.

And I started to cry.  Right there in the middle of the freaking restaurant and I just couldn't quit.  I kept seeing Billy's eyes as they looked up at me from the bed…ach jeez if I think of it now I am going to start crying.  I actually had to get up and leave the restaurant and go outside and walk around until I got a hold of myself.  

But…and this is fantastic…tonight he was really awake and so funny and happy and lighthearted.  I don't know why but he seemed so at peace.  He still wasn't talking, he has pretty much quit talking because his voice is so weak but he was responding to jokes and funny memories.

  Then, at a particularly quiet moment, we were just sitting there, I had my back to the door, when suddenly he let out a bellow…"HEY!!  HEY YOU!!!  GET OUT OF HERE!!!  GET OUT!!!"  I goddamned near had a heart attack!!  I turned around to see Victor, who had Bill's room before him, he got moved, and he has dementia and keeps coming in to Bill's room to use the bathroom.  And Bill doesn't like it!  Jeez!!  I didn't think Bill could be that loud so suddenly any more!!

But the funny part was Victor.  Poor little Victor.  He must be 90 if he is a day and he can't be more than five feet tall.  Well, they have put a really tall toilet seat on Bill's toilet.  Now tiny Victor goes into the bathroom, doesn't shut the door, and drops his drawers and tries to get up onto the toilet seat!  He finally, using his hands on the side rails, hoists himself up kind of onto the seat, his feet dangling in thin air, and lets fly…and of course is missing because he isn't on properly.   Meanwhile I dashed out to find someone to come and not one person was anywhere in sight…so I went back in time to see Victor, in all his bare naked splendid glory, hit the floor.  I had to go in there and help him up.  So there he stood, pants on the ground, totally bad mess and he is wringing his hands all helpless.  I went out again and found a nurse this time and thank god he came and cleaned up Victor, cleaned up Bill's bathroom and took the old guy back to his room.  Meanwhile Bill is laying in his bed, seething.  Hahaha..it was so funny…old men, gotta love 'em!

Monte came over and honestly, we had the best time with Bill.  He was joining in and smiling.  Finally, around 9:30 he started to get sleepy.  So we tucked him all in and left him, with his phone right handy.  Now we are home, after a run to Walmart and I am  posting and going to bed.  I am exhausted tonight and methinks I will be sleeping well!  TTYL

WE HAVE NAMED THIS BEAST 'BILL'.. HE FELL IN LOVE WITH THIS FRIDGE IMMEDIATELY UPON SPYING IT AT TRAIL APPLIANCES

LOOKS LIKE A SECRET ENTRANCE TO ANOTHER WORLD

THE FOOD IN THE HOSPITAL IS EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD…I HAVE TRIED SOME OF HIS DINNERS HE GETS (AND NEVER EVER EATS) AND THEY ARE TRULY FLAVOURFUL AND DELICIOUS AND HEALTHY.  TINY TASTES THOUGH BECAUSE THEY KEEP TRACK OF WHAT HE IS AND IS NOT EATING, I DON'T WANT THEM THINKING SUDDENLY THAT HE CHOWED DOWN A STEAK AND IS TOTALLY FAKING ILLNESS

OFF TO SLEEP WITH HIS FAVE BLANKIE