Due to some confusion…mom was alone this morning. No one was there to start her day with her. As a result, when dad came to see her at 1:30, she was still in bed, reclined, lights out in room like nighttime, shades still drawn, no hearing aids… It never ceases to amaze me, the lack of care and concern for a human life. It just seems like such common sense to me to treat someone the same way you’d want to be treated…the Golden Rule.
Dad arrived and mom had already been showered. They moved mom to the wheelchair a little while later. Anthony, Con, and Anthony Michael joined him shortly after that. They played cards with mom—she loves that!! The Boy Scouts came and sang today too. Anthony brought a silly looking “Court Jester” type of hat and wore it and mom laughed really hard when he did. They talked and then Anthony helped mom sit up straight a few times by pulling her forward by the hands. Mom pulled herself up a few times! She sat up and tried over and over again to do so. She was sleepy then but didn’t sleep, just sort of mopey. Her head was very tilted to the right side today…I kept trying to work on straightening it up…mid-line. I tried to work with her with puzzles but she wasn’t interested. Terry came to visit mom with dad and I next and she talked to mom and mom watched her as she did. The 4 of us watched Miracle on 34th Street next and mom smiled a lot as she watched (and fell asleep on and off too). She enjoyed watching the movie. She and I continued to watch TV and be together after dad and Terry left. I tucked her in and we prayed together. She removed her hearing aid and eye glasses and folded her hands in prayer then went to sleep as I held her for a while.
“In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.” 1 Peter 1:6-7
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