Flower bed

in the making. But looking a lot better than last year. The red lilies are amazing.

Nice day at work. Another event that made me feel that I'm in the right place. One of the residents has been quite aggressive lately. More than usual. I was feeding him at lunch and it suddenly occurred to me that he might be in pain. (He doesn't talk or sign.) So I talked to my co-worker and she said that I might be right. We gave him pain medicine that a doctor has put on his medicine list. In half an hour, he was so much better. By dinner he was giddy and I danced with him a little. (He stood there and I danced holding his hand and sung Abba.) Few hours later and after another dosage of painkillers he was such a sweetheart. I've never seen him like this in the 7 weeks I've worked there.

I do feel bad that I didn't catch this already on Monday. But I was again the only one who thought about it at all. Now I wonder for how long he's been in pain. It's very difficult to notice these things as he only communicates with his hand when holding my hand. And of course I can see when he smiles and today even laughed. I've never seen that before.

I have the weekend off. I feel a bit bad that I'm not there to check on him. I hope I can put that aside and enjoy my only weekend off in all of July.