You Go Girl

I was speaking with the head nurse on Sam's unit this evening, Francine, and she relayed a wonderful story to me about Sam. Apparently, yesterday at dinner time, Sam was seated with a number of the "neighbors" eating dinner in the dining room. One of the neighbors was new to the facility and was having a repeating issue, i.e. he kept repeating the same words over and over again and very loudly. After a little while, Sam, who was trying to concentrate on eating couldn't take it anymore and she picked-up her food tray, put it on her lap and rolled herself in her wheelchair over to another table. Wow! The nurse said that she and some of the other nurses there were amazed that Sam would/could do that. It showed that Sam could change her environment and was helping herself.. Francine also said that she and some of the workers wished that they could move from certain tables like Sam had done, but of course they can't because it is their job to work with the neighbors regardless of how annoying the neighbors get!

Francine said that they all said to Sam...you go girl!