The first full day in Taiwan. After breakfast at the hotel, I went to mom’s nursing home. I surprised her. She didn’t know that I was arriving and she just sat there stunned, I think. I was joking with her too trying imitate those confused dog head turning and she did the same. This made the grandma in the next bed laugh. The nurse came up and asked mom if she recognized me. She said, ‘no, I don’t know her”. Then the nurse said you don’t recognize your daughter coming from the US to see you. She said, of course I do, it’s stamped on her head. Everybody laughed too. Sometimes, she can be humerous. Like she told me in secrecy that the grandma in the next bed is pregnant. The care taker told me that she said that about that lady before because the lady has a little pertruding belly. And my mom also said that she is dating an old man in the nursing home. The drama in the nursing home I guess.
I had seafood hot pot for lunch and meet gumbo soup for dinner. And a bubble tea to finish the day. Trying different food this time. S is asking for pictures. So I’ll have to remember to start taking pictures from now on.
Getting ready to start the next day now. Will have to call the relatives too to let them know I’m here. And they will have to do the getting together dinner again. sigh. a burden for all of us.