The other day, my daughter and I made pizza together. I bought some pizza dough in a tube which, as I’m writing this, sounds gross, but what are you going to do, if you’re not a domestic goddess. We started well in advance of when we needed to be done. We read the...
Polly Krause
Senior moments
On the night shift, someone was calling out in the dining room in the early morning. Old gent with Dementia, poking his head out of his room: "Someone is yelling out there and I haven't got my shot gun." I tucked in next to him, hoping to nudge him back into his room....
Dirty work
I spoke with a doctor recently. No, it wasn’t concerning my health. He sat down to talk with me about my chosen profession as a Health Care Aide on the Geriatric unit of a hospital. He told me a story about a woman who worked in his office as a medical receptionist....
Bath time
I work as a Health Care Aide on the Geriatric Unit of a hospital and I always tell people how much I love my job. The other day, I was reminded why. I was about to give a bath to one of our patients, someone who tootles around in a wheel chair, not really relating to...
Don’t just do it
We watched Evan Almighty the other day. Though I thoroughly enjoyed the movie (Steve Carrell is way weird), I have one issue. They used the acronym ARK for Acts of Random Kindness (or Random Acts of Kindness as, I believe, it was originally ordered. Humorist Danny...