A Room With A View

When you need to make the hospital your home for awhile, it is good news if you can move to the penthouse suite!

Isabel has moved to a large room with two picture windows overlooking Regina.  The move to this room has been something that we hoped would happen for a long while.  We are all pleased that Cousin Joy was on hand to help with the move that suddenly occurred one afternoon last week.  Imagine the parade of Isabel and her entourage -- bed, wheelchair, visitors' chairs, respirator, side tables, greeting cards on long cords, artwork from the walls, photographs, visitors' book and chocolates, clothes, lamps, clock.....

Mum's room is still on 6F (sixth floor) and only 3 doors from her previous room so her staff remain the same.  It took awhile to settle in, but oh, how lovely it is to have hangers for one's clothes, more space for visitors, and windows to watch the prairie sky. Mum and her visitors are now able to watch daylight come and night fall through two large windows.

Cousin Joy shared three Celtic House Blessings with Mum in her new digs on her first full day in residence.  Here is one of them:

Wishing you always; 

walls for the wind, 

& a roof for the rain, 

tea beside the fire, 

& the love & laughter of those you hold dear. 

Isabel continues to have increasing time sitting in her wheelchair each week with energy to enjoy her visitors.  Her flexibility in her contractured left hand has gradually increased in such a way that she can slowly but more easily use the narrow end of a wooden spoon to spell out words on her letter-board.  We are all learning lip-reading while Mum delivers full sentences a mile-a-minute and leaves us in the dust.  We have to persuade her to say single words and phrases.

Mum's quick delivery of a kick in the derriere to an inattentive daughter whose back was turned is proof that her sense of humour is intact and some of her physical strength is returning.

Plans continue for the Robbie Burns' party this week! Stay tuned!  Thank you for all the offers of haggis that have come our way!