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From: "valerie bower" <>
Subject: Re: [TRIVVIES] Re: Incident [was Mum]
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:41:51 +1100
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Wow Marlene, no wonder you had a headache. Better now?
Val xx



> Monday to Wednesday last week was hectic, so was looking forward to a
> nice fairly quiet day on Thursday with an outing for our monthly AGAPE
> lunch, [we get invited by the person who takes our building hymn sing].
> Well Thursday came and I had a headache, felt like cancelling but 2
> others had and that left just 8 of us, and the folk have been arranged
> to pick us up, and we are served by many volunteers, [they are told how
> many to roughly prepare for [total for tables seem to be about 130] so I
> went, and as usual give Louise an arm to hold onto when walking, she is
> a great walker puts me to shame, now walks with a [walker/"zimmer"] but
> with a cane if going in a car and appreciates an arm to hold onto [she's
> 90 in May]. Well the buzz at the tables worsened the headache, so was
> quite happy for the visit to the "little room. 2 of our ladies had gone
> and Pat had followed, so with Louise only holding onto my arm we followed
> shortly after. Was surprised to see Pat standing outside in the corridor,
> so realized she thought there was only 2, so naturally went to open it to
> let her in [she is getting very bad with Alzheimer's] when she attacked my
> arm and yelling that she was next, I couldn't defend myself till Louise
> managed to hold onto the wall .. tried to explain to Pat what I was doing,
> lucky I had on long sleeves my arm was bright red in places from above the
> elbow to the lower part, she just didn't want to listen to my telling her
> there was more in there. She eventually calmed down and apologized, by
this
> time my head was really throbbing and we still had the entertainment to go
> through. I had bruises that day and others appeared days later.Feel really
> sorry for her cos she is going soon to where Ina is now living, another
> lady from here, Veronica is also there, I can see violent clashes between
> Veronica and Pat, let alone some of the other patients. By the time I got
> home I was thoroughlydrained with the worse headache I have had for years
..
> .... after such a hectic four days I gave up and rested on Friday.
> Hugs
> Marlene
>
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> > Oh....so what was the surprise incident then???? :-)
> >
> > DiDi
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