Saturday, January 23, 2010

Side By Side

Mom's in the hospital with pneumonia. In the end what's important has nothing to do with me not getting sick so I sat in emerg for a few days with her, dead center in infectious control, beside the curtained off bed of a man who may or may not have had Lock Jaw.

Mom takes her oxygen out 20 to 30 times an hour when she's awake. Best way to stop her is to gently take the hand she intends to use. Sometimes she gives me a kind of "Aw you got me" look in her eye and squeezes my fingers with a little smile."

I got my wish to hold her hand.

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