Welcome home David

David returned on Monday from his travels and after a couple of days to recover has returned to work today. I am looking forward to seeing his photos and hearing his tales.

Yesterday at Tebbutt Lodge there was a concert in the afternoon and I was sitting there watching one of the residents, Lisabeth, dancing around to the music, with a couple of biscuits down shoved down her bra saved from morning tea. She used to be a dancer in her bygone days and well the biscuits I had made a mistake of giving to her as that's what she does with them. I began thinking about life and what happens when you get old and unable to care for yourself.
She seemed happy enough dancing around in her own little world but I began to get tears in my eyes thinking this could be me one day. Just then I was interrupted by Billy who wanted me to take him back to his room. On the way to his room he began crying and saying he was going to fall down as he thought we were lost an unable to find his room. I calmed him down and told him we were nearly there and we eventually made it and I told him to have a little nap. Billy is one of the residents that came from the hostel at Glebe which closed down and is taking a little bit of time to adjust to his new home.
That was the second person yesterday I had to take back to their room. In the morning Barbara had asked would I take her as she wanted to use the toilet. She uses a walking frame and it must have taken about 15mins to get there. However, the cleaners hadn't been into her room to clean it yet and when I saw her bathroom I had to go and get one of the PCs as it was so disgusting I couldn't go in.
As the concert was in the afternoon I decided to do Trivia in the morning. I told them some one line jokes which made them all laugh. Even Nellie was answering questions, even if they were a bit cynical. There was such a big turn up and I realised why. It was because last time I had given out chocolates. I promised them I would bring some next time.

Michael is spending 10 days in New Zealand so last weekend Kerry-Ann, Felise and Jake slept over at our place. Kerry-Ann had to work on Saturday so we took Felise and Jake to North Rocks shops to have coffee with Nora. However, Nora didn't turn up and had forgotten about it completely even though we only spoke to her the night before. Anyway we meet up with Burne and Jan who happened to be going to have coffee and joined them.