Guest trays

Mom's nurses are so nice! There is Andrea, who is an RN, and Tammy, who is a student nurse intern looking forward to her graduation in December.  Every time they come into the room to check on Mom, they also check on Dad and me to be sure we are okay. They also take time to explain things to us, rather than just racing into the room, doing their tasks, and leaving.

A couple of days ago, they ordered "guest trays" of food to be brought up from the kitchen for Dad and me, which we thought was an awfully sweet gesture on their part to have a meal brought to us that day. Yesterday, Dad and I went downstairs and bought lunch in the cafeteria and ate. We had hamburger steak, mashed potatoes, green beans, and tea. As we were coming back upstairs, Tammy saw us as we were coming off the elevator and said there were "guest trays" for us again today, but she had failed to catch us before we slipped out. She said it will be a "standing order" for trays to arrive every day and that we needn't keep spending our money for food while Mom is hospitalized. Wow!

The food is pretty good, too, for a hospital cafeteria. Last night's tray was beef stew, corn muffin, cole slaw, walnut cream cake, and tea. Today's lunch tray (see photo) was fried chicken, baked sweet potato, turnip greens, corn muffin, blueberry cobbler, and tea. It is almost as satisfying for me to watch Dad enjoy his food as it is eating my own food.  The same is true with my darling husband — he gets as excited about food as one can get and proves the old adage about "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach!" 



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