My mom has moved to a new floor of the hospital. On this floor, they stress rehabilitation. She's still unable to walk on her own, but she's getting stronger every day. The floor that she's on is something like the summer camp of hospitals. Daily they have bingo, game night, comedy hour, group talks, crafts, and other things. My mom is still too weak to participate, but she's getting a lot of help on the floor.

The other great thing about this floor, is that they do whatever it takes to help the patients get better. And in our case, they said we could bring Ewok, our dog. It will be beneficial in two ways. Me and my sisters have always joked about how Ewok is our youngest brother, and how he gets spoiled in ways we never way. My mom would carry him around in her arms and sing little songs to him. We knew that she missed him a lot. And Ewok missed her. At home, he was just depressed, following me around like a, uh, puppy. He's actually sitting on my arm right now.

So we decided to bring him in, a little worried that he would cause a ruckus in the hospital. But he didn't. And he was ecstatic to see my mom, licking her hands and jumping up and down. My mom was also happy to see him, though all his energy made her a bit tired. But it's great to see my mom smile again, and laugh, and talk more, and be a little more active.

I've been so stressed over the past couple weeks, with my mom, and work, and commuting between the hospita and work, back to the hospital, sleep at home, and repeating the cycle. Half the time I don't even know what day it is, or how long I've been here. Even the thought of being married seems like a memory to me, it's been so long since I've seen Dave.

As I had said before, I haven't seen too many of my friends, or called anyone while I've been here. But yesterday, a friend called me out of the blue. Seriously, Jamie, I don't think you've EVER called my phone before. But being a faithful blog reader, *wink* he knew that I was in town, so he invited me out for Angelo's pre-birthday night. There were only a few of us out, and me and Fatima were the only girls for a while (just like old times) but it was great to hang out. The music was good, the dancing was fun, especially with crazy cool Jerry and sexy Emer. Rounding out the Angelo birthday gang was Deo, Derek, Jamie and Tim and Cathy came later. We had a lot of good laughs, and reminisced about college a lot. I had a great time, and I really miss the gang. It was nice to put away my worries for a night and just have fun. Thanks guys...

Good times.

Posted by Yano at October 18, 2003 09:25 AM

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