So, you want to take home your spouse, your partner, your child from the hospital, the rehab, the skilled nursing care facility. Wherever they are, sure there's no place like home. At first everyone's mood is buoyed -- the transfer went without incident; the mechanical bed and over-bed table is ready for them as you … Continue reading Caregiver Training: Because Things Change Without (Much) Warning
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Reunions, School and Learning
Why have I never yet yearned to talk with classmate cohorts -- especially surrounded by the chilling halls of our former prisons? Why is it that the announcements of a school reunion leave me flat? What would we talk about -- our former lessons, our present stunting? I never formed bonds with those encouraged to … Continue reading Reunions, School and Learning
A Journal’s Keepsake Quotes
Only a few more pages to fill in before I'll need a fresh Journal. The first page of this one I'm still using was left blank, for no particular reason, until a quote from Seneca found its way onto the top line, then something I read from The Canterbury Tales. Followed by others. Together they … Continue reading A Journal’s Keepsake Quotes
Dad Jokes…It’s Great Craic, So It Is
I can easily lose my train of thought, forget why I was searching the internet, if video of dad jokes come along -- two guys telling these lame, pun-ending jokes in Poker Face monotone as a contest to see who will first break their composure. It's good craic. Dad jokes help hospice visits during stressful, … Continue reading Dad Jokes…It’s Great Craic, So It Is
Breathing In Freedom
For the past two hundred years in Euro-Western writings, Freedom is defined without regard to the obvious fact that we are on the earth and subject to its conditions. Completely independent of agency from non-human factors, i.e., living on a planet and all its nature! What non-human factors are in the philosophical writings about freedom … Continue reading Breathing In Freedom
Dementia Meets Pacemaker
Of the Five Dementias, expect that Alzheimer's might get you five more years of life after the gross behavior changes start wearing out the caregiver, maybe taking five years off their life. And woe to those older couples talked into getting a pacemaker within a few years of him putting the house keys with the … Continue reading Dementia Meets Pacemaker
I Judge Book Covers
Entertainment celebrities fascinate me when I watch. I sometimes read their words, or those about them. Shakespeare was a celebrity actor and almost nothing about him exists, but his words. They remain and still are worth reading, over and over but his words remain, but they'll still be worth reading, over and over. Occasionally I … Continue reading I Judge Book Covers
Suicide: Some Talk and Behaviors
Numbers out of context irritate me. Random statistics sprout everywhere. Could it be the Science Effect that we are not certain something exists unless it can be measured? My dislike started early at museums, world's fairs, or any tour. Guides, like overgrown children reciting their lessons, talked to us in measurements -- say, gallons per … Continue reading Suicide: Some Talk and Behaviors
Missing Trump
In the past two days two people -- of seemingly different political background -- initiated conversation about how things were better when Trump was president. I'm not sure how they calculated the way things worked better, but apparently television was more interesting. The first day, a patient asks my opinion about "the current Administration". Seated … Continue reading Missing Trump
Howard Zinn’s “Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law and Order”
Last night we watched the Howard Zinn video, "You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train" from the popular historian's autobiographical sketchbook of the same title. The last scenes were of Zinn and his wife Ros protesting the U.S. war in Iraq during 2004. I think we need a refresher on civil disobedience, beyond just … Continue reading Howard Zinn’s “Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law and Order”
Hospice Nursing 1 Day at a Time 