( WP ) An elderly person wakes in a nursing home , not know how or when they got there ...

Muriel thought the bed seemed unusually hard and cold as she slowly started to wake up. She reached blindly for her husband next to her. `` Frank?'' she murmured, groping for his hand, but only contacting bedsheets and the edge of the bed. Frowning, she sat up in bed, eyes opening. She was in a small room. There was a television mounted on the wall opposite her, and a small table with a lamp next to her bed, as well as a short dresser. `` Frank!'' she called, bewildered. What was this place. Why was she here? 
 
 After another call for a husband not there, a nurse came in. `` It's all right dear. You're at Sunny Oaks. We're just helping you while your sick. Your family should be here soon.'' 
 `` Jenny? Is she at school?'' Muriel asked. `` She should be at school.'' Her daughter was only in the fourth grade. 
 `` Yes, she'll be here after school.'' The nurse said patiently. `` Now here, these will help you for now.'' she told the elderly woman. She knew Muriel's husband had been dead five years past. She held out a pill and a glass of water. 
 
 Muriel did n't argue, but took the medication, and allowed the nurse to help her into a wheelchair. She must be going to see Frank now. Even as she was wheeled out, she did n't know tomorrow would start the same way, and every day had been that way since the Alzheimer's had set in.
