Behavior change

I haven't been writing much lately -- mostly because we've been in the longest period of stasis I can remember since this whole deal started about six years ago. That still seemed to be the case when I visited her this afternoon. She smiled and laughed. But I was summoned to the nurse's office and asked to okay a new medication. The nurses looked worried. They said May has been attacking the staff. When I asked what that meant, one of them said, "Like she turns into Mike Tyson." I asked how she was at night and they looked at the night nurse -- she said it happened at night too. It's a form of anxiety, they said, like she wants to get out of her skin. They're going to try an anti-anxiety drug. Several of the residents are on this same med, they said, but the look on their faces was not reassuring.