Sunday Matinee at the N.H.

The Sunday Matinee at the local Nursing Home is free. That is after you pay your daily $267 rate. Yup, free. And exciting huh? Maybe a sudden avalanche or head on car/truck, or total home explosion might beat the "meaning" of this picture in my estimation anyway. I was walking out to the front door to leave after visiting Auntie Berdie today when I passed this scene. I had to back up and pull out the trustie Sony Sure Shot and I sure shot a good one. The best one came out blurry but I had more. Berdie had a rough day today. She slept in her recliner which seemed to work out better, but then had trouble breathing all morning into the early afternoon.Berdie todl me they left her sit in her chair undressed and cold way too long and that is what started the breathing troubles. The nurse doesn't seem to know what to do. Odd huh? Uh, hello, call the doctor. The nurse told me Berdie's oxygen levels are good, her blood pressure is good, her respiration is good so they cant give her anything. Yet when I felt her face it was cold and clammy. Ya think maybe somethings up folks. The nurses finally talked to me and told me Berdie was scheduled for a test Thursday to see if she is in Congestive Heart Failure. I said I thought that was already decided. They told me this test would tell us if she is in an active state of failure. Again, Ya think? She is crying and miserable, legs swollen, cant eat, cant sleep, cant pee alone or stand alone...ya think she might be in some sort of failure, yet they do nothing but leave her sit and struggle to breath. Its not anxiety because her heart rate is not up.... I say its thick phlegm from her just getting over pneumonia and a cold. Her ears and nose and throat are clogged. Duh ....give her a decongestant says Dr. D. But then who am I? I don't have the degree, yet I have a large degree of "sense." Science and sense don't mix do they? They should! All of our great discoveries were made my people like me with a large degree of "sense." Then the scientists take over and give what we discover a big name. Working together... We shall see what tomorrow brings for Berdie. I told her one of these days Ma Tillie and Bill would be coming to see her and if I saw them first I would let her know and if she sees them first to let me know. Tillie is her Mother and Bill was her husband of 60 years. One of these days.