Another interesting weekend on the Snowy front.
Saturday she was too ‘exhausted’ to go to the beauty parlor. Wow! She was in my care all day, with Chick checking in enjoying “just” being the granddaughter. It was fairly quiet.
Sunday, we tried something a little different. Chick had some projects she needed to finish up, but she had opened up the curtains and let daylight in, had the room door open, had Snowy propped up with an extra, big pillow, and had found a golf game on the golf channel for her to doze to. Snowy likes golf — her daddy used to play A LOT, and she played as a young woman– so it has good feelings for her.
As a way to keep her ‘tended to’, I brought my latest mystery and plopped down in a chair in her room, so I could immediately respond to her ’sit ups’, blanket smoothing, questions, etc. It was nice. I spent about 5 hours with her like that.
Somewhere in the midst of it, she began making comments about the person who had died. Her language, her words, were frequently garbled or nonsensical, so it was a challenge to divine meaning out of a lot of what she said. But she did tell me someone had died. Her next comment was that she would be next.
I told her “bad dream”, not happening, no worries, everything’s fine, just us girls (and critters) in the house… She gave me snarkily pitying looks and basically said, “suit yourself, but I know what I know’.
By the time it was bedtime, and we had her ‘down’ to sleep for the night, she was sitting up and swinging her legs around (meaning, she MUST be attended to as there was no dozing back off). Chick went in to talk to her to see what was up, and Snowy insisted that there were 2 dead women in the house. Chick assured her there were not; I assured her there wer not. Chick finally asked her if she wanted to go through the house to see for herself, and she snapped out, “Yes, I do.”
So Chick loaded her up in the wheelchair and rolled her room to room, even opening the front door and pointing out “Snowy’s” white car sitting out front — something that usually soothes her to no end– and then took her back to her room. She asked Snowy if she was satisfied that she had been all over and seen everything. To which Snowy replied,
“You didn’t show me the 2 dead bodies.”
Well. Guess not!
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