Day Fifteen

It’s been fifteen days of volunteering at the Woodcrest Center and it seriously feels like I just started yesterday. It’s been quite a journey so far. One that I will definitely have many stories to tell about and one that I will never forget. Today continued with the full moon. Audrey continued her usual fight to try and walk around by herself. Lydia was a bit calmer though. This one man Nicky picked up what she was lacking in trying to stand though. Then Sylvia started again. Only this time, Kam took her in the other room because it was very early in the morning for her to be starting and she knew it would go on until lunch. So Sylvia was taken care of. I continued with my routine until hallway supervising came. In previous blogs I talked about a lady named Betty that is a resident at Woodcrest. I was waiting in the hall with her and a couple of other residents when she started to cry. I asked her what was wrong and she held her hands up to me and said that she has cuts all over them that were bleeding. I saw nothing on her hands but they way that she looked at them, you could tell she saw it. It was pretty scary because she was really freaked out by it and at that point I was too. A nurse came a few moments later to take her to the doctor. That was something I wasn't very used to dealing with but it was just a different kind of experience. The rest of the day ran smoothly as the full moon seemed to fade away.