My husband has been more active in helping out with my brother lately, which has been very helpful. He visited with him on Wednesday without me, and I was happy about that because the weather was pretty cold and it's hard to go at night, you just want to come home.
Today on Saturday, he went with me for breakfast. We had an ok time, my brother was in a good mood, despite the fact we were 20 minutes late because it had snowed and we had to shovel snow at our house. II did call to let him know, and it sounds like the staff must have told him this time around. I think getting past the holidays really helps.
I was kind of startled when he started talking about the 9 patients who died at the nursing home between June and September of this year. I didn't realize it was so many. It mus be very difficult to live in those circumstances. He told me that he was beginning to put on weight. I am going to have to call the nurse practitioner on Monday and remind him to keep an eye on my brother's fluid retention. I asked my brother to do the same, but you can't assume it's going to get done.
This weekend the weather is supposed to get so cold they are talking about closing the Federal building where I work. Meanwhile, the staff is going to have to travel to get to their jobs in this weather or sleep over. It's times like these that you really appreciate them.
At the restaurant there was a slight built in ramp going over the curb into the parking lot that was a little icy, and if my husband and I hadn't been right there to catch my brother he would have slipped and fallen.
But he didn't, and all was well.
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