For Gloria

I am writing this to help explain why I have not been doing as much returning

comments as I usually do, because for the past couple of weeks or so, I

have been doing the leg work and the paperwork and telephoning and the

traveling, trying to get my son Mark's wife, Gloria, moved from a nursing

home that is about 35 miles from where we live, and another 35 miles from

where Mark works, resulting in him only being able to see her once a week, and

we go together maybe once a month or so on a Sunday to see her, but she

was in a very bad nursing home, an old one, understaffed, and badly rated,

and sadly not clean like it should be. They let Gloria drop out of bed once

when she first went there, and that resulted in spine damage, and then took

her to get an MRI and she was dropped by the ambulance corp on the side walk

as they did not strap her in properly. So now, she needs surgery on her knee

to be able to walk again, she was in for rehabilitation and could walk when

she first went in, now she is in this sad state, so here is my request for

prayer for her. She has a propensity for blood clotting which makes surgery

a big risk. I am hoping this new home will have better doctors and it is near

by so that she can be visited more often. This can happen to anyone, it is

sad, she is only 60. Yesterday she was finally admitted to the nice place,

three miles from us,

For Gloria

Gloria is a pretty name

it sounds like the name of a flower

Perhaps I am thinking of Morning Glories

I have just visited her for an hour

She is in a nursing home

Skilled, it is supposed to be

I am praying it lives up to that name

For she has moved there because of me

I filled out all the paperwork

And had her sign her name

Lots of red tape involved

But you have to play the game

She is lying in a bed propped up

Pillows behind her head

Smiling with tears behind her eyes

I know she feels the dread

She wants to come home so badly

to her husband and kitty cats too

But to me it seems, rather sadly

That this is not about to come true

I wish I didn't think that way

I don't want to forecast her doom

but I really don't know what to say

when I sit with her in her room

She an introverted person

and wont' fight for things that she needs

and when I go to see her

I see in her eyes these deep pleads

Please help me get out of here

And I don't know what to do

I just pray for her and try to bring cheer

If you have a spare one, as a friend of mine

I ask that you please pray for her too

Thank you