The “redial” button – dangerous?
Yup, especially when in the hands of the wrong person!
Audrey from GT Heritage had called yesterday to say that she was a little worried about mother. Apparently, mother was showing the Parkinson’s like stiffness that we’d earlier managed to overcome with an adjustment in her medications.
I next called Dr R to let him know and he made a suggestion that I duly called to tell Audrey. I also asked her to keep monitoring mother, and that I might go over after work to see mother.
All well and good after those three phone calls. Or so I thought.
A while later, my handphone rang. My heart skipped a beat when I saw the caller ID.
GT Heritage.
Had something happened to mother since the earlier calls? I pressed the answer button.
Me: Hullo?
Unfamiliar voice: Apa? Siapa tu? (What? Who’s that?)
It was Grace, one of the residents who’d recently learned how to use the redial button on the cordless phone in the office. She’s forever using the phone to call her children.
*relieved*
I later called Audrey to tell her about the “surprise” call. She said they really have to put the phone somewhere higher where Grace cannot reach it.
A few Sundays back, while at GT Heritage, Betty’s handphone rang. She looked at the caller ID.
“GT Heritage? But I’m here.”
Yup, Grace again.
