Show 6 REAPER EXTRA Taken From THE RICHFIELD REAPER March Thursday 31 1991 Nursing Home: Lesson In Life Elaine Blackburn Administrator Richfield Care Center The follow ing is a special article and wanted to share friends and readers By Salvatore Gentile I came across w nh our many Reprinted from The Sew York Timet Everyone should go to a nursing home People should go not when they arc old but while they still know where they arc while their eyes perceive shapes clearly not as indistinguishable shapes that disappear in the distance They should go while there is HONDA enough strength in their arms to give a firm handshake before it becomes a struggle just to lift a fork to their lips They should go to a nursing home while they are still able to turn on their heels and walk out the same way they came in I do it every week My father has been in the same one for almost two years now — flat on his back mostly They brought him in for reasons I still have trouble pro- nouncing: degenerative heart condition and arteriosclerosis advanced arthritis and a host of other ailments He and I have another word for it LflliJ UlfiBS gam NOTHING'S Middling 'UvJMjJm IIR2irS Recycle It’s good for America pitiil kit Si — old age The years it seems ganged up on him all once The same man who only a year ago started wearing glasses woke up old one morning and was rushed to the hospital He had been progressively slowing down but I overlooked the warnings signs I refused to admit the truth Putung a father in a nursing home was something loving children just did not do I was afraid of taking him to such a place - afraid it represented a betrayal of all he had done lor me Those first months w hen I saw him in his new surroundings that fear seem justified He had a bewildered look on his face and a hospital dressing gown on his back He has had one like it ever since There were tubes leading into his arms And a plastic identification band around his wrist And cheery strangers popping their heads into his room exhorting him to be a "good boy" I was ashamed of what I had done to him I wanted to wrap my coat over his shoulders lake him back home But then what? 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