Nightmare #3

I had a nightmare this week.  I was in a hospital that was also a children's home.  An elderly woman had been admitted the night before.  The nurses pulled some curtains so that the children couldn't see what was in the hall outside her room.  On a plastic sheet were her arms.  They'd cut them off.  No explanation as to why.  The curtains were useless.  I saw and the children saw -- we all saw the severed arms.  There was no blood.  I'm not sure what this is about.  Of course I think of my mother in the hospital where she died.  I remembered today that the nurses tied her arms to the bed one day so that she wouldn't pull at her feeding tube.  She tried to convince my sister and me to untie her by cutting the ties.  They'd used pieces of cloth.  My mother thought there were nail scissors lost in the covers on her bed.  That was the day she was hallucinating.