Author Archives: Carol

I have been thinking of food lately. So this blog will be about food and poetry.Poetry is to the soul ,what bread is to the body.I have always enjoyed apples and I am trying to eat healthy.Applesweet, tart, juicy red, yellow, green round globesSliced in half, revealing hiddenseed starsI treat myself to milk and cookies thatContinue reading “June 9,2020 Food for Thought”

Well, today I had PT and OT in one day. I was given wrist strengthening exercises, and finger movements. I showed the therapist that I wasn’t able to push the braille keys with equal pressure causing a poorly formed braille cell.The PT. noted that my confidence in my movement through my home is compromising dueContinue reading “June 4, 2020 Therapy”

Well I have been home for 10 days and I received a PT evaluation. No OT . Good thing I didn’t wait for bath instructions. A PT did call last week but his Indian accent and quiet voice would have made it difficult to follow directions. His solution”,”I will just show her” With a totallyContinue reading “June 2, 2020 Home therapy”

Healing gives you surplus time on your hands to pause, dream and remember. I find I think of being able to see . Especially, when I find I have maneuvered my walker into the living room for the third time . I sigh and think about my childhood .I had two old apple trees leftContinue reading “May 28 A Time To Remember”

My Mother used to tell me,”All in good time or time will heal” I have ample time to reflect on the issue of time and healing. I have found that time varies in how quickly time passes. The more I interacted with others, I didn’t notice the passage of time. Constructive work makes time passContinue reading “May 26 All in good time”

It is with sadness and joy thatI bid farewell to this life change. I have not asked for this but accepted it. I wish to thank friends daily and the staff for teaching and sharing I also wish to Thank John for keeping the phone and talkin to this coffee deprive wife early in theContinue reading “May 21 2020 Thanks and a prayer”

Sleep is important .Wake up   I know that hospitals run on a 24 hour schedule  I do not .When I am told that the staff is finished for the night I believe what I am told.   I slip into sleepwear and package the hearing aids for the night. I sleep deeply and am startled severalContinue reading “May 21 2020”

may 20 2020i will be going home with more that i planned on i have a bladder infection This could e due in part, to long use of catheterWhen i arrived at the hospital all i wanted was pain relief and a drained bladder. A week later and I am working to do this simpleContinue reading “Bladder dysfunction in long term care”

i take my body to the repair shop to fix recent dents and bumpsthe doctor said “ do you have an ulcer “We can fix that we would like to study it”Also you may have sleep apnea i protest’ this is a four door not a Ferrari,Give me the 29.99 special!As my time here inContinue reading “5,20,2020 Just the 29.99 fix”

Spring scents in misty morns-crisp on the outside but sterile withinI long to feel the breeze lift my tendrils as the risen sun warms thecheeks and hands looking forward to the day last evening , I had a low hemoglobins count and a dark stool. I thought about the questionts they asked “did you seeContinue reading “Day 18 What else can happen?”