in the parking lot

Without a doubt, today was the very definition of 'roller coaster'. I met up with the Da Younga Sista to visit MeMum. We walked into the dining area around 11 AM. We found her slouched over in the chair with her mouth open. She was leaning to the left almost falling off the chair. I tried to straighten her up but she was dead weight. Her tongue was rolled back in her mouth. It took us a couple of moments to confirm she was breathing. She had a very large bruise on the side of her face. We called one of the nurses over because Sista and I were both freaking out. The nurses tried to revive her but had no luck. The dayshift monitor that informed us she had been given a drug whose name I don’t remember. She said it was given to her daily to mellow her out a little. Apparently Saturday night she was up roaming the halls and did not sleep much. The effects of her being tired and this drug knocked her out. We had the nurses bring her back to her room and put her in bed. I’m not lying when I tell you I thought it was the end. Seeing her slumped in the chair like that brought tears to my eyes. I don’t want my mom to live with Alzheimer’s but I also don’t want to see her dead in the chair in the dining room. Sista and I hung out in her room for an hour chitchatting before heading out. Mom never came to. When we left she was snoring so I knew everything as okay as it could be.

When I got home Erica and I went to the grocery store. A couple hours later Da Younga Sista called and asked if we were home. She said she was going to visit us. That’s a big deal because she lives almost an hour away. She eventually arrived with J-Nic and her boyfriend M. BitchFace (J-Nic's nickname for him, not mine!). She brought a margherite pizza and some belated birthday presents for me. We had a nice time talking and cutting up for a while. Maxwell J. eventually came out of hiding out and rubbed against everyone. It was a very nice way to end a day that started out so shittily.