Easy Day
2345 Friday 10 December 2010
Not much happened today. A nurse came by to refurbish Michele’s port and a speech therapist tried to get Michele to talk to him -- with little success.
This was our first day with our new “Vital Signs Monitor.” At ten o’clock, the monitor started asking Michele to “Step onto the scale,” which, of course, Michele ignored. A minute later, it repeated its request. It continued to nag, so, always being a management challenge, Michele left the bedroom for the kitchen for a second cup of coffee. She hid out there while the scale continued to plead for a full half hour. When it finally shut-up, Michele returned to the bedroom.
But the scale was not about to give up. It secretly phoned a cohort human who then phoned Michele and asked her to step on the scale. Michele then handed the phone to me. I promised to endeavor compliance. Every two hours the scale or its cohort requested Michele to step up to her duty until I unplugged the machine and blocked the phone number. We shall see how cooperative Michele might be tomorrow.
Things seem to be settling in to a routine of two daily activities with a lot of sleep, so this blog will switch to a weekly summary unless something different happens. Check back in on Saturday, 18 December.
RKS
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