They are having a hard time getting my mother to go to bed at night. All she wants to do is walk the halls. When I went to visit tonight I couldn't find her. I searched all of the halls asking the few people I met if they had seen her. No one had. I finally spotted her shoes next to an exit door so I decided to peek in the room closest to the door. There she was. In bed. Jack's bed. Jack was sitting in his wheel chair next to the bed watching tv as if having a stranger in his bed was normal. I actually laughed a little outloud. When I tried to get her up she wouldn't budge. Good thing since she didn't have her pants on. I ran to her room to get her robe. Her pants were in her room so apparently she had walked down the hall in her pull-ups. My guess is when she couldn't get the exit door open she took her shoes off and then went into Jack's room. On my way back to Jack's room I asked the aide sitting in the lounge if she was on break. She said no so I told her that I found my mother and I needed her help to get her out of Jack's bed. Two of them came with me. It was difficult but we finally got her out of Jack's bed and into her own. I can only hope she stayed there.
Perhaps they will pay closer attention to where my mother wanders from now on.
Pam...I'm pretty sure she was more interested in the bed. She didn't seem to be aware that Jack was there.
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