While my mom is here in Victoria, we're renting a room in an extended stay hotel. It's a nice suite, with a full sized refrigerator and a stove top, microwave, and dish washer. The fridge has an ice maker and is nice, though I do rather wish it were equipped with refrigerator water filters , as the ice is kind of cloudy. The water tastes okay, so it's not too bad.
We're basically hot bunking the two beds, with the three of us taking turns with my mom. It was just my brother and I this weekend, but we're being joined by my niece in law tonight.
In a spirit of the One Dang Thing After Another theme which has become my mom's life...she now has shingles. Oh. Joy.
They gown up and take precautions going in and out of the room, but the nurses here are, for the most part, nice, considerate and gentle. The exceptions..well.. we're learning which ones to watch out for.
It's my mom's birthday today, and instead of having some quiet celebrations (well, relatively quiet... as the grands and great grands were to be involved), she got to start a new medication, is in a lot more pain and in increasing despair. A lot of our job now is to keep her spirits up and calm her fears.
I'm taking at least this next week off of work. 'Pup came down today and brought me more clothes and all my meds, so I'm ready.
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Plant a seed!