They are cutting back on the hours of paid employees, even nursing staff are being sent home when the hospital is not busy. I think it is all part of the serious economic situation in the country generally at the moment; they haven't got the employment laws and protections that we have, so people counting on a regular, full time salary to pay their mortgages etc. are suddenly finding that their hours have been cut back, they are being sent home, reduced to working part time, and this is happening all over the country.
Whereas Larry, as senior chaplain, worked a certain number of hours Kevin has been told to go home as soon as he has done what he needs to do, he has even been told not to spend more than two minutes in a patient's room. In other words, to leave the patient visiting to the voluntary chaplains.
There weren't many patients on the floors, and a new - male - volunteer had already been round when I got there. There were quite a few young mothers though on the women's obstetric floor, and they left those for me to do, which I thought was rather sexist. I have been round a couple of times in the past but I don't like it, I don't relate well to young mothers, I am much better with sick, old people. In future I will dig my heels in if asked.
Rosalyn unexpectedly rang this evening and invited me to supper with her and Bruce, they were going to an Italian restaurant in Tecumseh, and it was all very nice, a nice meal and I like their company.
In the news......(as a change from the war) Senator John McCain has been getting a lot of heat because he was spotted, and filmed, playing poker on his smart phone during a US Senate Committee Hearing, ha, ha, ha. Half the country is tut-tutting, the other half is reminding everyone he is a national hero (he spent five years in a Vietnam POW camp) and give him a break. If it were any of my business I'd fall in the latter category. But then I never go anywhere without my toys; my C-Nook and a little bit of crochet in my handbag.
I took this on Wednesday evening at the Hebrew Centre at Seminole. It is in a residential street and just merges in with the surrounding houses.
I was a bit anxious about Bubbles today. She has suddenly taken to sunbathing on a shady patch beside the house, but it is so hot that I worry about her becoming dehydrated, although I keep opening the door to see if she wants to come in. After a while I just went out and scooped her up. She certainly likes sitting on the porch in the evening with all the bugs - the crickets and grasshoppers and praying mantisis, or is it mantises.
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