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Don’t Touch The Thermostat!
My recent trip to West Virginia for
Everything was ready. They had the
my mother’s surgery was definitely
room down the hall all cleaned and
eventful.
shined. Nurses’ names on the little
The hometown I grew up in is small,
board, we were all set. So one of my
only about twenty-five hundred people
sisters and I headed that way with a few
or so. Therefore, when it came time to
of mother’s things and began to add
plan this surgery, the doctor doing the
our little touches in making mother’s
procedure recommended doing it in
transition comfortable. When we
Morgantown’s Ruby Memorial (which
entered, the room was very warm. The
just happens to overlook Mountaineer
thermostat had been set too high and
Milan Puskar Stadium). So off we all
mother would rather pile on the covers
went.
than turn up the heat. I’m the same way,
Morgantown is a quaint little place Wanda Branham so I didn’t quibble.
that moves faster than a speeding bullet. Columnist
The first mistake was for my sister to
Being a college town, it is filled with
see if the cover came off the thermostat
students, restaurants and free wifi signs. Compared (as in the previous room), so you could actually see
with Blythewood, I found it to be a little too fast for the numbers on the little wheel. Apparently, whoever
me. Zipping in and out, confusing lights, signs and painted or installed those little monsters had no
traffic configurations had me thankful I didn’t get intention for lay people to make adjustments. It gave a
behind the wheel except for the drive home on I-79. little hiss but did not come off. Being the independent
Hotels there are plentiful, and we were fortunate and headstrong women we’ve grown into, I decided
to obtain one not far from the hospital. This proved to give it a try.
invaluable when mother had to stay an extra night in This not only succeeded in not adjusting the room
their care.
temperature, but the whole thing fell off the wall and
Through the stress of waiting, however, my three proceeded to hiss a substance I prayed wasn’t carbon
sisters and I enjoyed each other’s company. As always monoxide, or air conditioner fluid.
when we get together, someone gets an attack of the Now, I love my older sister very much, but in
giggles or sarcastic wit prevails. I could spend all day times like this, she’s no help. Except for laughing
relaying stories of episodes of hilarity and mischief, hysterically and near peeing herself. She was so red
but for the sake of column restraints, I’ll tell the most faced with laughter she couldn’t breathe.
hysterical and suffice it to say what could have turned About this time, a nurse decided to enter and add
into some fines or arrest.
something to the board. When she inquired, I owned
Tuesday evening, the day after the surgery, it was up and said, “I tried to adjust the temperature, and
decided among the hospital nursing staff that due to it fell off.” Now, contrary to the police assault I was
some very unruly patients who’d been causing havoc imagining, it was handled very well. She tried to fix it,
most of the night before, they would move my mother
and some other patients to the opposite wing. Her
and then called for maintenance.
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doctor opposed. I don’t know why unless he didn’t
want to walk from one end of the hall to the other, but
that’s completely irrelevant.
stand it anymore and trotted down the hall to inform
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