Walls of Comfort...

The Hospital Helper informed me that the new Hospital will open soon and this old one will be done for.

Mom's dialysis sessions take place in another area that was newly built 3 years ago. We lost a lot of space when moved from the old building to the new one. And now the area where the old dialysis center was located is the entry for the new Hospital.

As I walked the halls this Saturday I realized the art on the walls, the beautiful tile floors and the cafeteria won't be my home for much longer. So I'll start taking photo's of the soon to be old place until it is demolished.

We've spent over 10 years at this Hospital, so much time that the Hospital Helper thought I worked here. We have lost a doctor to retirement, and saw the pain of another that lost a young daughter just this year.

Mom has had wonderful care and we hope she goes on many more years under the care of the entire staff at the Hospital and in the Dialysis Center.

Mom, Sis and I have made serious decisions in this Hospital. At one point Mom and her baby sister were in the hospital at the same time.

In 1999 Sister and I returned home from a month vacation in Europe to Mom in the Hospital with the on-start of kidney failure. A few months later she was back in the hospital as sister was leaving for a return trip to Holland to get closer to her now Partner for Life. We had to push her to go.

In 2000 after time spent with Sis going back and forth to Holland and Mom getting use to Dialysis, Sis made the choice to move to Holland for good.

I'd planned a move to Italy but with Mom in her condition decided to stay here in California with the thought of one day getting to Italy.

Now the place that has been my home away from home is going to be pulled down and I will have to get use to a new Hospital. The staff will mostly stay the same but the halls won't be the same, the views out the windows will change and my Comfort Zone from Mom on Machine to Cafeteria will be a longer distance.

The walk will be good for me but I just want things to stay the same for a while longer.

So here is my first blip of my memory photos.