Block #9: 145-156 (Entry 9)

I just wanted to get some time in before I went off to bed to write about how today and yesterday went. It all started at the group meeting this morning when all of the other patients began complainingly at all sorts of different things they don't like at the ward. Of course I didn't complain at all, I think this place is perfect! After the group meeting, the staff and black boys took us out to the swimming pool. Not many of the patients enjoy swimming in the pool on the fact that the fear of drowning. Not me though, I love the water, it is familiar and is comfortable for me. While at the pool I noticed McMurphy talking to one of the life guards, the one with the broken arm. It was unusual because usually the black boys will push us away from the side of the pool, and not allow us to talk to the life guards. After the pool we went inside, and the other patients began to complain about the cigarette situation. The patients are annoyed at the limit of one pack a day. I am actually okay with this rule because I for one think smoking is a bad habit. I started to notice that after going to the swimming pool, McMurphy began behaving well, it was so un-normal. Well the next day we all woke up and went to the pool again, the most horrible thing happened at the pool, it seems that Cheswick managed to get his chubby hands stuck in the grate at the bottom of the pool. I and many of the other men jumped in the pool to try and save him, but it was too late, he had drowned. It just wasn't a good day, after that Sefelt had a seizure from not taking his medication. After all of the commotion over the last two days, it seems that things in the ward are begging to get back to normal. I just hope things go back to how they were before McMurphy cam to the ward. Until next time.

-Frankie