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863 days ago
There are some amusing, but somewhat painful, truths here: 1. Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. 2. Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get. 3. When you fall down, you wonder what else you can do while you are down there. 4. You're getting old when you know all the answers but nodody bothers to ask you the questions. 5. Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. 6. Wisdom comes with age, sometimes age comes alone. 7. You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster.
866 days ago
Two elderly women were eating breakfast in a restaurant one morning. Ethel noticed something funny about Mabel's ear and said, "Mabel, do you know you've got a suppository in your left ear?" Mabel answered, " I have a suppository in my ear?" She pulled it out and stared at it. Then she said, "Ethel, I'm glad you saw this thing. Now I think I know where to find my hearing aid." 9:12 AM Add a
868 days ago
Yesterday was a major highlight of my life since I have been incarcerated in the nursing home. I got out for a major event - my granddaughter's wedding. And it was sensational. The bride was a vision in white in a gown with a long train. My great grandkids were the ring bearers and flower girl. The featured food was roast pig - a specialty of Uncle Al Dick. He was up at 4 AM getting things going. The electric warmers blew out the electrical circuits four times, but everything ended well. The pig was sensational! It was a joy to be able to smooze with friends and church members who have shared in communication with me. In fact, it was like rejoing the human race. And what better occasion than the joining of two attractive, personable young people in life's big adventure - marriage. Hundreds of pictures were taken. You willl be seeing them here soon.
871 days ago
Around this nursing home, you hear in the dining room, you hear it in the hallways you hear it come out of the rooms of the residents: "I want to go home!!!" Well, it doesn' take long for the pure sameness of life here to drive one to terminal boredom. And, yes, I do want to go home. Yesterday the MD came in to visit me - the first time since I have been in Heritage Manor. He says the body situation looks OK and I can go home when the therpists think I will be able to handle things without s support staff. So, now I have laid it on Noel the chief physical therapist here. He has worked wonders with me and I now see an immediate future at home. Maybe a week. Or two weeks.. Anyway, homecoming is in sight. You can bet that continual updates will be coming from here.
873 days ago
Yesterday, I was in the bathroom, sitting on the throne , patiently awaiting some action, when to door to my room opened and a frizzled grey head poked in and took a good look at me. I identified her as one of the nonsense babblers from down the hall. She then ducked out and closed the door. Later that day, I was working at my computer when I had the feeling someone was in the room behind me. I turned around to find that this same person, who, believe me, could be cast as the Wicked Witch of the West, was making herself at home in my room. "This is not your room!" I yelled at her. (You have to yelll at people around here to be heard.) She replied with some gobbleldegook no one could understand, so I pointed to the door and said - "Your room is down there." Blank look - and more gobbledegook. now what do I do to get her out of here? I wheeled my chair to confront her and pointed out the door. Then I got my chair so close she ...
