In 6 days taking a gentleman in for an actual comprehension test. Advanced Alzheimer. Are any of you aware that finding a care or assisted living facility will who take men in this condition. Almost all said no . Took a lot of work to find a decent place for him to live.
The benefits of a classical education are evident!
ReplyDeleteWhen I worked in the factory, we had a "Toolie" who could fire off three, complete sentences where every word was some derivative of the "F" word.
DeleteOn of the men I knew (when I was in the Army) when examining a broken down Land Rover exclaimed "Ah, Fuck. The fuckin' fuckers fucked".
DeleteSix words, four of them a derivation of fuck. I was impressed.
Phil B
OMFG.
ReplyDeleteI got to twenty then forgot (21!) what I was doing.
In 6 days taking a gentleman in for an actual comprehension test. Advanced Alzheimer. Are any of you aware that finding a care or assisted living facility will who take men in this condition. Almost all said no . Took a lot of work to find a decent place for him to live.
ReplyDeleteYou are an angel.
DeleteAlzheimer's is a cruel disease. Some men go walk-about. Others rage. Some are dynamite with short fuses.
Homes that are understaffed (nearly all of them) have incredible pressure to sedate those kinds of patients to the brink of comatose.
I told my kids "Find an ice floe or drop me off in the middle of Utah with a backpack, fishing gear, a .22 and a brick of ammo."