Visiting gran today was actually a joyride. Normally it isn't, it's a shit fest of emotional blackmail, accusations and trying to make one another feel worse. Since she's gone almost entirely senile and unable to register surroundings, gran has begun to appreciate the help she's getting from the staff in the nursing home and can be rather pleasant. She is a few months shy of a century.
They allow for visitation since two days ago and they called me yesterday if I would like to make an appointment. The General is still skeptic towards the wisdom of this - he is still preoccupied with a dread that he infects someone (being a postal worker) - but he was entirely needlessly worried. The whole thing went like visiting someone in prison or a highly sanitised facility! (There was an incident in the country where almost the entire retirement home was infected due to poor ethics of a medical worker). We stood outside and the main nurse tried to signal me, but I didn't make eye contact, so then my phone rings and she's waving at me and she asks us to come around to where the garden entrance is within the compound. We find the glass garden pavilion and another nurse puts the back of a phone to the window, with a number on it. Granny is in the wheelchair, covered in blankies and mask and can't really see much, but the other nurse is sort of interpreting. We make phone contact through the window, having us on speakers on both sides. We chat a little, she asks for some chocolate and if we had a birthday celebration for my parents and how we are all doing. Just a little bit, but it was very nice. We thank the nurses, they all wave and we leave. Actually really sweet. And clever!
In the meanwhile, I've entertained myself with reading police report for 2019. I do that every year and then try to guess the stories behind it. Example. We've had 51 wrongful deaths last year, among which the worst seems a hit on a woman by a contract killer, but almost a dozen cases were medical malpractice or an employer filed against for failing to secure workers - like death by electrocution or construction accident. There were about half a dozen suggested suicide, mostly of elders. The rest were usually robberies gone wrong, a couple of ODs, some unspecified (traffic collisions?)... All in all, very curious and if I was bored enough, I'd love to check which of these were ultimately decided to be murders. Among the sexual crimes, a third was to do with prostitution and underage kids. Some male. That is as far as I got reading it. Some crimes against wildlife and nature were also listed. Some fake marriages. One abuse of a national symbol. Lots of hotel mismanagement. Sadly a lot of mistreatment of the disabled. I'll go check arson and use of a firearm as well. After lunch.
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