Okay, here we go. Dad was excited about going to the Center on Thursday morning. Maybe I should say he was anxious....he wanted to be sure the night before that I had him wearing the "right" thing. He didn't want to wear those awful sweat pants. {his words were I hate them things.} Maybe so but when he is saying he is about to wet his pants we need SPEED! lol
So I got him a pair of dress pants, and a belt and a shirt with cars on it from Rod's closet. He even wore Rod's dressier jacket that Mom got him. So he was ready to roll after discussions of whether to tuck the shirt in and out and how his hair should be and I didn't shave in the right DIrection, haha It goes on and on. So we get in the car....."How far is this place", What time is it?, Who comes to get me", Where are you going?......questions all the way over.....and HE and Mom used to tell ME that I asked enough questions to make a good lawyer when I was a kid. HAH!
So we get there and he walks from the car to the door {about 20 ft} pulling me all the way....Slow DOWN Dad, I can't walk that fast. He does that once in a while in the last few days. I signed him in and here comes the greeting committee. An old man with a walker who ALSO is 89 years old. Dad was raring to go with him and they walked down the hall together.....Dad didn't even say goodbye to ME. {thanks alot Paw!} So I chatted with the nurse and the director a while about his needs and off I went.
I told the nurse I would be back at 5pm after she telling me the plans they had for that day. I NEGLECTED to tell Dad. Oooops. Dad is a clock watcher if you didn't know that. I mean he spends his days by the clock...IT's noon, time to eat. It's 9pm, time for bed. If I ask him if he is hungry, first words out of his mouth is....'What time is it.' I say, Who cares, are ya hungry? haha
So I spend my day cleaning up some things at the house.....I wrapped some Valentine's Day goodies for his sister and girlfriend.
BULLETIN....good NEWS...the aid just weighed him and he is now up to 140 pounds! YEA! That's 13 pounds in the last 2 weeks. Awesome!
I left the house around 1pm to go visit a girlfriend that recently had surgery and was off work....I was there a couple hours. Then back to the house again to loaf around and play on the computer till time to get Dad. I left at 4:50. Got there right at 5pm and the girls came up to me and told me Dad was more than ready to go.....
Oh brother....he told them at 2:30 that I was suppose to be there and why wasn't I here......he insisted on getting his coat on....he didn't want to play in anymore of their activities but wanted to sit by the door and wait for me.....Oh Lordie.
Then I see Dad....he was not smiling and first thing out of his mouth, Why weren't you here at 2:30 to get me? 2:30??? Where did you get that? He insisted I told him that. So I let him carry on a bit...he wasn't mad ......but irritated was the word to use. I just let him go on for a bit and told him I wanted to take his photo for the Blog. Oh brother......he said he wasn't in the mood, so I said Fake It anyway. hahaha Then he laughed.
{Photo above and he faked it fine.}
So we get in the car to drive home. I told him it was my fault because I didn't tell him the time I was coming back before I left. I told the nurse and staff because he took off with that other gentleman. He said he didn't believe them. haha Naturally. He said he was worried more than anything that I had been in an accident.
I told Dad that I would someHOW let him know if I was going to be late and for him to try and not worry about things and just enjoy his time there. He said, 'You women worry about us men so I suppose I can worry about you.' {I didn't think men worried, lol}
By the time we got home he seemed to be hungry and wondered what was for dinner??
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