Day Fifteen Sunday Sticky Notes

Today I planned to go in a little later since Ivy was there with Moma. I had a little break to lunch break with a group of friends at Chilis and went and did a little shopping. I was in hopes this would be a distraction, but Moma was still in the back of my mind the whole time. I got a message from the wound nurse and FNP that worked at the nursing home group Moma works for. They were wanting to go see Moma, I was all for it, maybe they could talk some sense into her. When I go to the hospital I saw two ladies talking, they both looked up at me and greeted me, I assumed it was them. They were both in the waiting area talking, I'm sure they were talking about how rough the situation looked. They both were appreciative of me allowing them to come see her. The wound nurse said she really appreciated my Moma and that she had prayed with her several times and got her through some rough times. She also said she had COVID and Moma was the one that helped take care of her. The FNP was a little flat but she was nice and said she had really learned a lot from Moma as her mentor she taught her the ropes well and reminded her of her mother. This was warming to see some of Moma's work. I told both the ladies to come back and visit and that I appreciated them. This made me feel better about my concern a few days ago where I was scared people were going to forget about Moma. I walk in and check on Moma she looks about the same as the day before, no significant visual changes. I was looking through the room to see what I could straighten out. Always have mess everywhere so every little bit helps. I also decided to take the sticky note of Jasons on our little appreciation wall down, he don’t deserve it anymore. I sit down with Moma and talked about random stuff for a while, was just a one sided conversation as unusual. The RT came in and talked for a long time, sounded like she must be the lead RT as she makes the schedule. She was talking about all sorts of stuff at one point she said she was going to send me a payment in the mail to give her therapy. I told her its all good I'm use to people laying it on me. I don’t mind listening. Helps me kind of know I aint the only one going through mess. Boy did she open up about EVERYTHING evening “spilling the tea” on a few coworkers. She was even telling me there was a traveler on shift tomorrow that would be taking care of Moma, she said she had been doing it for 20+ years so she knew what she was doing. On the way out I decided to grab up some daisy award brochures I was going to nominate Lauren and Christina for the daisy award, I wrote the hell out of that nomination, and they better get it!

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