Tuesdays, the Slice of Life Community is hosted by Ruth and Stacey at Two Writing Teachers.
Some of you know
that my husband has Parkinson’s Disease with Lewy Body Dementia. It is not a good thing to have. This past
year has been very tough. Because of his
decline, I’ve had to place him in a nursing home because I could no longer care
for him. Most recently, he has been sick
with a UTI (urinary tract infection), evidently the plague of elder people at
risk with other health problems. So the
slice of my life since last Thursday has been in a hospital, helping with my
husband’s care, especially trying to wake him up enough to try to eat
something. Then reading or writing
while he slept, which was most of the time.
Hospitals create
their own worlds, I have realized, with special rules and communities, people
who wear badges hanging around their necks, and people who laugh when they can
because much of the time they could be crying.
There are computers for each patient in the rooms and a phone that I can
call the nurse with instead of a button pushed.
Each nurse and nurse assistant carry pager phones. Tech has entered this world.