Friday, March 29, 2013

Emergency room dramas play out in every city across the world. It seems to be a little bird's eye view of life.
Waiting with people in pain is difficult and made more dramatic by the Constant activity In the ER.

A family consisting of a very tired mother with a local food store logo on her shirt came in around 2 A.M. with a precious little girl and a handsome boy. The girl must have been around  4 and the boy 10. He walked up to the coffee server and preceded to make a cup of coffee. The little sister kept saying, " tup, my tup." While pointing her cute little fingers towards the stack of styrofoam cups.

The very exhausted looking mother told the boy, " to get some water in the cup and give it to her."
The precious little girl in pink became more vocal and demanding. Her sweet hair braids and cute little pink glittered shoes moved more and more vigorously as she repeated,  " tup, tup, tup."
The mother got a cup, filled it with water and two packages of sugar, and a straw to the sugar water.
The little pink girl was satisfied, but after downing one "tup," she demanded more. She was given three tups of sugar water in all before spilling one cup into her lap.She began twirling around with her wet bottom and dragging her mother's coat on the floor.

This scene continued for over an hour while we listened to some very upset woman describing her mother's bizarre behavior to a listener over her cell phone. We heard about the unhealthy condition of her mother and father's bedroom with stacks of old things that needed to be moved. This daughter was beside herself and very frustrated with her mother and her mother's apparent dementia. The daughter repeated the story about five or six times to the same listener.
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