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A Visit From Judy and Andy
28 February 2025
This morning Andy drove his mother from Sacramento, picking me up, to visit Joyce. She was still in bed when we arrived, so I put her shoes on and helped her get dressed and into the wheelchair. Then we all went to the gym.
The SciFit was occupied but Paul Eugene videos were playing so Joyce (and Judy) followed along, moving their arms. Judy even found some one-pound hand weights for Joyce to use.
Then we went down the hall to the scale where I weighed Joyce. She had dropped another pound to 116. Frightening.
We went into the Pacific Room where Joyce had a snack that Andy and Judy had picked up at Mollie Stone's. A yogurt parfait and a croissant. Joyce nibbled at the croissant and had a couple of spoonfuls of the yogurt.
After I moved the piano out from the wall, Joyce and Judy played some sheet music Judy had picked from Joyce's piano bench at home.
I brought Joyce's lunch tray in after the piano playing but she barely touched anything. She did drink her prune juice, some milk and some coffee. Half the ice cream. But spit out the sweet potato fries and a nibble of the fish I tried to feed her.
Judy called Carol, who was battling a cold, and we all chatted a bit.
Then we rolled her back to the room to give some other people a bit of privacy. They had apparently "reserved" the room, although there was no notice posted.
I tried to help Joyce pay her Kaiser premium online but third Web page in the process was broken so I took it home to do. That page touts some improvements coming, which I knew from paying my own premium earlier. So I was confident doing it on the computer instead of the phone would work.
Judy called Mary, who had just begun her happy hour, so Joyce got a chance to talk to her as well.
Then Judy took Joyce around the place and then Andy did, too. Then we go Joyce to walk from the doorway to the bed, undress, put her gown on and get into bed. Judy moisturized Joyce's legs and feet with the Coloplast moisturizer that Jennifer the RN at the Wound Clinic had given her last month. Wonderful stuff.
We said our goodbyes and Andy drove me home before they continued on their way to Sacramento.
It meant the world to Joyce to hear about their lives and see photos and videos of Andy's children and feel like there is still a world outside those walls. It did me good, too, come to think of it.