Monthly Archives: November 2016
Welcome to Lunch! I am thrilled to tell you this next story because it showed me that people are good at heart and want to help others if they get the chance. I was out working in a very poor part of town. I had forgotten my lunch that day, so I stopped at a fast-food restaurant to grab some food. I parked my car, and as I walked across to the restaurant I noticed four or five people standing…..
In the United States it is Thanksgiving Day, A national holiday. Where I am it is early in the morning and I am getting ready to go to work. I am a hospice aide and today I am going out to share part of my day with people who are gravely ill and not expected to live very long, maybe not to the new year. For them this thanksgiving takes on a special meaning because it may be their last…..
Please join me at the Lavender Library 1414 21st St Sacramento California Friday November 18th at 7:00 P.M. I will be reading from and discussing my book “I’m Here for the Bath” Hospice stories from a hospice aide. For more info call 916-492-0558 Hope to see you there. Peter Rolita
At the time of this writing I have been working in the health-care field as a nurse assistant or home-health aide for thirty years. In that time I have worked with hundreds of RN’s. Some of the most amazing and inspirational things I have witnessed during my time worker are due to these amazing people. I could write another book just about them if I sat down and started in, but I hope that someday a nurse will do what…..
Another snake story, I know! If this is to creepy for you, just skip to the next one. I was at a home out in the country giving care to a man who was gravely ill and very weak. He was in his hospital bed, which had been set up on a screened-in porch at the back of the house from which he could see the barn and stables, which he had built and loved. He and his wife were…..
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