Moorestown, NJ
November 4 - 7, 2011
This weekend Mom and I were in New Jersey to help Granny get ready for Christmas, at least that is what we thought we were doing. We arrived into PHL late on Friday night. We talked to Granny until roughly 3 A.M. The plan when I went to bed was to get up at 11ish and do some shopping before going to the rehab facility to visit Pop. At 9:30 A.M. Mom came into my room to tell me that she and Granny were going to the ER because Pop had been transferred there.
After getting showered and prepared to go out I called Mom. She said I should go start shopping with Becky and Ben because she wouldn’t know anything about Pop for a few hours. We ate lunch at Panera and then hit up the Cherry Hill mall. I don’t think we managed to acquire a single Christmas present but we did have fun wandering and people watching. Mom eventually called and said they were taking Pop for some tests and that she and Granny wanted to go to dinner with the family. After Beck and I made a quick stop at the Christmas Tree Store to buy some stocking stuffers we met the family at Ruby Tuesday for dinner. After dinner all five Thornburgs, Mom and I went to Target to get some more stocking stuffers. For the night cap we watched Alabama vs LSU and then the Ducks vs Huskies while wrapping presents.
Sunday morning Mom, Granny and I went to visit Pop in the hospital. He hadn’t been assigned a room or roommate when Mom and Granny left yesterday. So we were curious to see what we would find. Boy was it entertaining. Pop’s roommate’s name was Roberto. Roberto was hospitalized with a serious fever and infection caused by intravenous drug use. Roberto was friendly enough but man was he all over the place. Upon our arrival he was sleeping sideways hanging off his bed with his pants on the floor. Shortly thereafter he was peeing with the door to the bathroom open. Next he spent 15 minutes trying to log-in to the password protected nurses station. He joined our family’s conversation a few times by both standing and listening in and then telling his own heavily accented and difficult to understand stories. The highlight came close to the end of our visit. I was sitting in a chair next to Pop’s bed with my back to the curtain separating Pop’s half of the room from Roberto’s. All of the sudden I saw Judy and my Mom’s eyes get big. Just then I felt Roberto’s hand pop under the curtain and hit my chair. Before any of us could blink his head was under the curtain six inches from my @$$. Mom started crying she was laughing so hard. Judy looked like she was sincerely concerned and it appeared Granny didn’t know what to think. Eventually the nurses convinced Roberto that sleeping in his bed the proper way would be a good idea. When Pop fell asleep Mom and I left the hospital to go do a little more Christmas shopping.
Monday morning Mom, Granny and I went to brunch with Beck and the kids before seeing Pop in the hospital. Roberto seemed to be on his best behavior, which made Mom, Granny and the nurses happy. Granny wasn’t feeling fantastic, so mom decided to extend her stay to Friday. I’m currently on my way back to Eugene, so I can quickly turn around again and head for Sacramento to see Joel, DNelly and the kiddos before the Stanford game this weekend.
Until the day after tomorrow,
Katy
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