A reminder of the important things

Just a quick entry to share what happened at work last night. I was working with an 85 year old woman just out of a hip replacement surgery. If you can imagine everything going on for a patient after this including pain, confusion, disorientation, etc, you have an image of the scenario at 3am. We turn patients from side to side every two hours to avoid skin breakdown. This isn't fun for a post surgical patient, but it absolutely has to happen. After asking me if the dog food was in the dish beside the bed (I assured her it was), she prepared to turn. As we were turning, she was yelling saying "noooo! Please don't!" In the midst of her crying out and us saying "almost done, hang in there"...she suddenly stopped, looked at us with a serious face and asked, "Do you do the jitterbug?". "Sometimes we do", we told her.