Tag: growing old
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August 25, 2007 01:11 AM EDT --
As I sit gazing sadly in the mirror of my mind
The thoughts reflected back at me are not always very kind.
The words I’ve said that I wished I’d not
The things remembered . . .
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November 05, 2009 12:59 AM EST --
This is the first song to come to me in many a moon.
It probably needs improvement --- but I'm so . . .
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March 02, 2008 02:25 AM EST --
One thing about being older than the average human being is that you also have more memories and, hopefully, more wisdom.
Take this evening when I got to the front door, for instance. Anyone . . .
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April 14, 2006 03:32 PM EDT --
Your Granny's Nurse: Dateline 2027
Life in the Nursing home has changed a great deal since I first started writing this column, way back in aught six. For me, the most major . . .
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May 25, 2006 06:06 PM EDT --
Living in a Nursing home is expensive. The average cost of Long Term care in The U.S. is enough to break all but the most prosperous of us. On average, a semi private room in a home today runs between . . .
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August 04, 2006 01:00 PM EDT --
For-Profits versus Non-Profits
In my twenty three years as a Nursing Home Nurse, I have spent the majority of my time in non-profit facilities, working in one, and traveling to numerous others as an . . .
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April 23, 2007 08:57 PM EDT --
I feel the ache
It surrounds my every bone
I can see the scars on my flesh
I remember each cut
Suddenly I'm drained.
I've never felt this cold.
My soul gasps:
What . . .
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December 14, 2006 10:06 PM EST --
As many of you know I usually post an article every week about a weekly visit to my aunt in the nursing home. This week she is not in the nursing home, she is in the hospital. Also I have visited several . . .
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December 20, 2006 11:52 PM EST --
See the fire burning night
to ward off chill on Christmas night.
No fireplace for those gathered here
smelling of rum and cheap-made beer.
Smell of pine fills the chilly air
as it . . .
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September 22, 2007 09:39 AM EDT --
Whoever said, "Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man" was right. I looked It Up and It Was Leon Trotsky
For years I have been trying, struggling, fighting against . . .
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November 16, 2008 05:49 PM EST --
Today I went out to lunch with my ex. Before he arrived, I went out to the car to get my sunglasses. He arrived before I finished and we went off to a good lunch and good conversation. When we got back . . .
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May 17, 2009 12:42 AM EDT --
I looked in the mirror today
And a stranger looked back
With lines on her face
And graying hair
When did it happen?
I played with the children
My own children's babies . . .
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August 26, 2009 12:19 PM EDT --
Getting Old
Things are different I no longer care about the little things that use to bother me. I enjoy talking to people and hearing what they have to say. My children are grown, the youngest is . . .
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May 04, 2006 06:26 PM EDT --
Being a nurse, dying is part of my everyday life. I see death in many forms. Quick and unexpected, slow and lingering, peaceful, and agonizing. Recognizing the signs of impending death are a learned . . .
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May 16, 2006 06:05 PM EDT --
I have to admit that this is not an original poem. I have read this to every Nursing Assistant class I have ever taught.
This was found among the meager belongings of an eighty nine year old, nursing . . .
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August 11, 2006 08:54 PM EDT --
I went for a walk with my mother yesterday. I walked out the back door with the confused imposter who had been living in her body the last few years and ended up with my real mother by the time we circled . . .
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August 29, 2006 05:12 PM EDT --
I am a pariah in my chosen field, Nursing. Do I care? Not a whit. In fact, I relish the role, and will tell anyone who asks why I chose to work in the dregs of the nursing profession, the (cue sinister . . .
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November 14, 2006 12:44 PM EST --
Am I ashamed of growing old?
To ask this question I am told
should not be asked. To be so bold
to ask about my growing old
has all been studied and foretold
by ones who like to scoff . . .
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November 12, 2006 05:51 PM EST --
The last time I went to visit Mimi we sat together in the sitting room of the residential home.
"Would you like to go for a ride"?
There was a long pause.
"No" she . . .
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December 04, 2006 08:58 AM EST --
I'm telling off about us elderly. This one came in an email.
Senior Moments
"I CAN HEAR JUST FINE!"
Three retirees, each with a hearing loss, were playing golf one fine March . . .
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