Hello From Rockville

DeeAnn called me this morning and wanted to take me to St. Paul to visit Doris and Bob as she had things to bring to Jenny but because of my busy day it just wouldn't work. I promised to do the mail for here and that's at 9:30 which didn't leave enough time for a trip to St. Paul and to be back at the VA by 12:30 for a brunch.

Today I went to my first Christmas gathering. I met with the VA support group for a "brunch" at 12:30, each of us brought something to snack on while we visited, we had a good time and satisfied our tummy's. We will not meet again until the third week in January because of all the things going on during the Christmas season.

We have cold weather with a bit of snow and it will be cold for a while, no above normal temps.

There was a lot of excitement on Harlan's floor today as Channel 4 came in and taped several residents as they were given gifts from a lady from Maple Grove, she wanted to thank the men and women who had served our country to keep it free. Today was also the day chosen to decorate Harlan's floor, they did a beautiful job and it looks great.

Making the system work that alerts the staff when someone tries to get on the elevator on Harlan's floor has been a challenge and today was the day to fix the problem. They had Harlan and I try getting on and off the elevator several times, they changed the "bracelet" on his ankle and Harlan did not know what was going on he thought they were working on his shoes but he didn't know why. He has a squeak in one shoe and when he wears his hearing aid he can hear it and today when they got done with everything they were involved with the squeak in his shoe was gone. He told me he wanted the squeak back because he liked it and he couldn't understand why they took his squeak away. Maybe it will be back tomorrow.

We did a coffee break at McD, we had a bag of cookies and coffee and when we got back is when they worked on fixing the alarm. He was better today and wasn't as tired, I think most of his up and down moods are caused from lack of sleep at night, some times he stays awake at night and then sleeps during the day and I come and interrupt his sleep.

Today was a good day and tomorrow should be good too....Fran

P.S. I reread my blog for today and do hope it makes sense to you, I'm not sure if it does, sorry.