Monthly Archives: October 2016
One afternoon in response to a page, I called in to my office and was asked to go out to a new assignment. The client was a morbidly obese bedbound woman who needed care badly. I was to meet the nurse there and assist her in caring for the patient. Because of the size of the patient, we were to work together to avoid either of us getting hurt. I got to the house a little early and waited outside…..
Now this next story is not warm and fuzzy, so if you’re not in the mood, go ahead and skip it. I went out to start giving bed baths to this woman living in a small mobile home park that had been around for a long time. She no loner drove, so the instructions said to pull up into her carport when visiting. I went up the back steps to the door, which was unlocked, and knocked, saying my usual…..
This next story is about one of the oldest patients I have taken care of so far. Mr. G. was 109 at the time I went out to help him with his bath. This story is really about his cat more than it is him. I went out the first day and met Mr. G. He was way out in the country in a very small house with a metal corrugated roof and no air-conditioning! It was high summer, and…..
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