Today was the day--moving BG and his meager belongings into assisted living at Elmcroft Senior Center. When I got to his house, he was pacing the floor with his sweater (?) and his cap on still wondering what we were going to move. I discovered he did not put on the clean clothes I had set out for him, so I made him change. In a week's time, he had only underwear and one shirt in the dirty clothes hamper. Our handymen from the office came with our pickup and trailer to load his stuff--and of course, it was drizzling rain. They got things loaded and semi-covered with a tarp I had brought along. I had BG and the dog stay at the house while we went to town with the stuff and got it offloaded into the assisted living place. That was quite an undertaking--not because of the things we were taking in, but that the door closed behind us overtime and locked so we had to put in the code going in--and coming out which was very tedious and slowed down the process tremendously. I understand the need for it, but nonetheless, it was frustrating. After all was unloaded from this first trip, my helpers left and I stayed behind to unpack and arrange. As I completed what I had to unpack, I took off back to the lake to get BG and get him back in time for his first official lunch at Elmcroft. We left the dog at the lake by himself and I grabbed some more small boxes when I picked him up, and so while he sat in the dining room with his new 3 buddies he will be eating his meals with each day, I unpacked. The nurse at Elmcroft wanted to talk to me in her office, so I went down for that and of course that was when BG finished his meal and tried to find his room and couldn't. I heard him talking loudly as he went down the hall, but finished my meeting and only then went looking for him. Found him and got him back to his room. I made a list of the things I hadn't thought to bring him and told him I would be gone a couple of hours to get some things and then would be back.
When I got back, he jumped me immediately that his TV didn't work and he had told the people there 4 times and they still hadn't fixed it. (I had told him 4 times today that he would not have TV service until next week when we could get the cable hooked up--but of course he remembers nothing that is said to him.) So then I had to talk to the 3 people he jumped about the TV and make apologies, etc. He was cold in the room--I was burning up while putting up curtains, shower curtains and stuff. It was a circus! He had also reported that his air conditioner didn't work while I was gone--because he couldn't get it like he wanted it. I just gave a "bless your hearts" to all the staff he came in contact with and hoped that would keep them from kicking him out on his first day. Hopefully he will fall in with the routines and not drive everyone there crazy wanting to take up their time talking and complaining. But for the price he is paying for the place, they can just put up with it I guess. We at least know where he is at all times and who he is with and that he is getting 3 good meals a day and a very comfortable place to live with laundry and housekeeping done for him. I think he will really enjoy it once he figures things out.
Check out the place in photos at:
http://www.elmcroft.com/community/elmcroft-of-cottonwood/
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