Won’t Slow Me Down
Posted by Sam on June 16, 2009
Shortly after I finished college, I was blessed with a most wonderful job at a nursing home. I have such a big spot in my heart for the elderly. I watched my grandmother battle Alzheimer’s disease and I saw, it first hand, what the disease did to her. This made me understand more about these people who lose every sense of who they are. In the end, grandmother had no idea who I was, but I still knew exactly who she was and that was what got me through the tough last months of her life.
In the nursing home that I was working in, I had my first experience with lift recliners. I had never seen such a thing before. A few years ago, my mother had a bad fall off of a ladder and broke her upper leg in two places. Right away, I thought of getting her a lift chair recliner to use during her recovery. I knew she would be so much happier than if she had to stay in bed the whole time. I was right. She pretty much lived in that thing.
She had the stair lifts and she had her recliner. She was certainly not going to let this accident slow her down. She was still able to do her knitting, her crossword puzzles and her scrapbooking, from the comfort of her own chair. In fact, I think she was rather sad to have to give that chair up. I think she may have even faked it at the end a little.
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