Early Bird Gets the Worm... Thursday, August 11

Visited my mother today in the morning. It’s a 13km run to go see her and though I showed up smelly and red faced from all that running, she burst into tears. She was so happy she cried.

“No one but dad [her husband – my dad] visits me in the morning. I have difficulties in the morning because of the morphine” she told me.
“That’s ok, we’ll go through those difficulties together if you want” I responded.
“Every morning?”
“Yes… if you want, every morning.”

Looks like I just agreed to run 13km on a daily basis… oh gosh… hahaha.

The lady is the next bed beside my mom got moved to another room on account that she needs to now be isolated. She’s got pneumonia now and is having a hard time getting in enough oxygen so she was recently put on a breathing machine. She never talks and the nurses claim that she’s mentally not aware of what’s going on but I think she’s aware and I think she’ll miss being in my mom’s room because though we never really talked to her we were the only company she consistently was greeted by.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What do you do for the ones you love?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
It's never too much but it's never enough.
-- Hospital staff nurse