My hospital time spent with Anderson was 24/7 of course and I will always remember the compassion everybody there, the Doctors, the Nurses and the entire Administration Staff showed to us both. It was as if I lived there for those weeks spent not accepting the fact that he seemed to be putting on a very good "show" for me to give me the impression he was going to be "ok". (Little did I know at the time that he had even made arrangements with the various physicians to give me the impression that with time, they would make everything alright and he would be his old self again and I would not have to worry anymore!)
One morning, as I arrived he looked at me with those huge saucer sized eyes with an expression of "awe!" "Hey, listen!" he said without even greeting me. "I have something to tell you" "What?" I replied. "I want to tell you about something that happened last night to me. I think you would be interested in this, because it's kinda like things I heard you speak about in the past". I calmly asked what he wanted to tell me about? He went on. "Last night I had to go to the bathroom to pee. I got up out of the bed and went into the bathroom. Releived myself and then opened the bathroom door to come out and headed for the bed and stopped immediately! I said, "What happened???" He continued, "I looked at my bed and I was already in it?" I said, "What?" He repeated, "I was already in the bed. Under the covers in the bed sleeping." I said, "What did you do? Are you sure? Could you feel the floor under your feet?" He said, "Yes. I just stood there looking at the bed and me in it. I was confused?" "Confused?" I replied. "Yes. I did not know what to do? I got nervous and kind of in a panic! I started to think to myself, what am I gonna do now? What if one of the Nurses comes in here and finds TWO of me??? One in the bed and one of me here standing???" I smiled and said, "Andy what did you do?" He looked at me and calmly said, "I decided to hurry and try to get back in the bed and get as close as I could to the me in the bed and maybe no one would notice if they came in". I laughed out loud. I went over and hugged him and said...... "You are funny...." But in all seriousness, I was very surprised by this information he had given me. I then looked him in the eye and bluntly asked, "This morning, before I got here, were your sheets changed? He almost yelled at me, "WHAT???" I said, "Anderson, answer the question. You know I need to know". "Yeah, seems I wet the bed last night? Suddenly I am a Bedwetter, at my age! I have never wet the bed in my life as I know of!" I explained to him about what I had discovered about that type of thing long ago. Then I suddenly got butterflies in my stomach. I looked at him and said something to him that we had discussed years ago.... I said, "Hey, if something were to happen to you, will you make contact with me and let me know what's going on?" He very seriously replied to me, "I don't know if that will be permitted?" I said, "But if you can, will you?"
He quietly responded, "Okay".
The next evening, I was sitting in his room after dinner quietly thinking....... There was silence between us, when suddenly, he just spoke out and said, "Do you still want me to get in touch with you?" I said, "Yes". He replied, "Then I will".
More later.............
Love and Light!
Marshall
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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