Sister-in-law was hospitalized right before Solstice. Wife has been in Philadelphia since then.
Gave her phone number to the admitting nurse, never made it into the chart.
Wrote her number on the room white-board. They erased it when they moved her to a new room. She wrote it on the new board.
Came in tiday, heard that the case manager wanted to talk to her, didn't have her number. "I wrote it right-"
They erased it to write a positive quote in the NOTES section.
SIL's kidneys are failing, there is talk of dialysis, she is bedridden, the govt. is decreasing her benefits, and they want her to be of good cheer.
My first suggestion is to write yhe number on SIL's face, but we know that i am not allowed out without a keeper, and this is why.
Thing is, she did not reject the idea... Not immediately, not after a laugh, not with a 'i wish...' She cannot be THAT fed up with the bureaucracy, can she?
So i ask her to send me a picture when she does this. She will either laugh or say, if only.
She says, instead, cannot use her phone on that floor of the hospital.
Oh, shucky, what HAVE i done?