good mood and a story

I went to visit my brother on Saturday.  He was in a really, really good mood, very jovial, I'm not sure why exactly, but what the heck.  We went out to breakfast.  At breakfast we gossip about what is going on at the nursing home.  Usually there is nothing new going on.  But on Saturday he told me about Carol.  Carol is a fairly heavy person who was admitted to the nursing home around the same time my brother was.  At the time, I heard she was suffering from arthritis and in for physical therapy.  She was in a wheel chair but trying to walk again.  She had been at the horrible nursing home my brother had been in and she told me that nursing home had almost killed her.  Of all the people on my brother's floor, she is the most independent, talkative, and together mentally.  She was friends with my brother's girlfriend, and actually must be pretty good friends with the girlfriend's daughter because the daughter keeps on coming back to visit even though her mother died recently (and had been kicked out of the nursing home for violent behavior.)  Carol has fallen several times in the nursing home and never got out of the wheelchair.  She is on public aid.

Lately, my brother had told me that her colon cancer had come back and she had to undergo more chemotherapy.  I saw her in the morning and she looked like she had lost about 20 pounds. 

But on Saturday, he told me that she had been asked to move out of the nursing home.  It turns out she has called the police twice.  So I asked why.  He said that one of the patients was "known for having an anger problem" and had been harassing Carol.  Also there was another patient who had been haranguing her. 

I don't know what to think about this.  Obviously I don't have all the information.  But there is something I like that she took the steps of calling the police when the nursing home couldn't protect her peace of mind.

My brother seems to be ok with moving if it means being closer to me.  I just received a new application form to fill out that I'm going to sanitize a bit from what our case manager wrote.  Our case manager is ok with this.

PS, I see that I have gotten some extra hits on the blog a couple of days ago.  There must have been some kind of meeting/conference where it was publicized.  I love it!