tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11521343.post2259885063220949340..comments2023-08-16T03:37:23.275-04:00Comments on Naked on Rollerskates: Things That Go Bump In The Night...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11521343.post-16604831388535542092007-04-24T21:22:00.000-04:002007-04-24T21:22:00.000-04:00It must be great meeting so many people and having...It must be great meeting so many people and having such interesting conversations with people.Teena in Torontohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14875608173791872449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11521343.post-78749968738954463262007-04-22T23:54:00.000-04:002007-04-22T23:54:00.000-04:00I used to make deliveries to all the area nursing ...I used to make deliveries to all the area nursing homes. I've found entire wards with nobody on duty, no one to stop anyone from walking in off the street......<BR/><BR/>Even the high dollar homes are sorely lacking in professional staff and services.<BR/><BR/>One day I used my truck to block off Lawndale Drive and help get an old man out of the street who was walking aimlessly through 4 lanes at 5PM. It was dangerous as several speeding cars barely missed my truck. It's scary turning cross ways in the road when traffic is running 20 MPH over the speed limit. When we got him out of the road he had no idea how he got there and was wearing a wrist band from a nursing home within sight of where I found him.<BR/><BR/>Nursing homes scare me.<BR/><BR/>Honestly, when my time draws near I want to end life the way native Americans once did-- walk far off in the wilderness, pick a place with soft grass and a good view, sit down and die.<BR/><BR/>Getting eaten by buzzards, bears and bugs seems so much better than the way we do it now and costs a lot less.<BR/><BR/>That said, thanks to my current medications I hope it will be a lot of years into the future.<BR/><BR/>PS. Your hips aren't that big...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11521343.post-12996675786723422462007-04-21T08:37:00.000-04:002007-04-21T08:37:00.000-04:00Do you believe that there is such a thing as a goo...Do you believe that there is such a thing as a good nursing home? Or is that a figment of the imaginations of those of us who "put" our loved ones in homes? Your words are hitting a little too close to home as far as taking hope away. My Mom is not making a good adjustment to her facility. In her mind, in order to return to her "pre-fall" retirement home, she needs to walk without a walker. So as her joints deteriorate and she is in a great deal of pain with every step she takes, she continues to refuse the wheelchair, and to actively put herself in additional pain, in order to strive for this goal which she is never going to achieve. Because the part that she no longer can remember is that there are additional issues that will prevent her from returning. Her memory issues had adversely affected her ability to self-medicate, her vision no longer reaches as far as the floor, so her mobility issues are quite serious when she is "on her own". I had been thinking I needed to point these realities out to her so that she would perhaps quit hurting herself in the name of walking that isn't going to get her anywhere anyway. Now I wonder. Thoughts?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com