November 11, 2003
Nursing Home Tuesday
Hoocher and I had an interesting visit today to the nursing home. One of our regular stops is Mrs. K. She's a great lady; I love talking to her. Today it was nearly impossible because of the smell.
Something in her room reeked so strongly of urine that it was difficult to breathe. I was sitting right next to Mrs. K., so I know it wasn't her. She has a roommate, but who knows...could have been a random strike from another resident too. Several of the them seem to have trouble finding their own rooms.
Poor Mrs. K. We cut our visit short.
On the way out of her room, we noticed a guy across the hall laying on the floor of his room, flat on his back. I flagged a nurse on our way up the hall, and as she's headed down towards the room, I can hear several aides running around excitedly calling for a nurse because there has been "a fall." I suppose they don't want to broadcast it on the entire wing that Mr. Smith took a digger, but it seemed rather impersonal. I hope the guy is okay.
Our final stop today was to see our friends in the Alzheimer's unit. Here's Hoocher squeezing in between two of his favorite ladies for some lovin'.
What can I say? He's a hound. He's even got one of the staff members baking him home-made dog biscuits. I'm sure there will be some cookies or brownies coming my way any day now.
It's so great that you and your dog visit the patients in nursing homes. I've often thought about training my basset hound to be a bit less excitable, because he loves people (and they love him in return), and he would be such a great thera-pet. I might just have to look into it now.
Posted by: Pie at November 11, 2003 06:48 PMAn excitable basset? I guess I don't know the breed well enough. Seems as though every basset I've known struggled to appear animated! :)
They sure are neat lookin' dogs.
Posted by: Cathy at November 12, 2003 05:38 PMAdmittedly, he isn't your typical basset. Most of the time he's a breathing throw-rug, but whenever new people are around he's likely to piddle on their shoes to show them how much he likes them.
He does have a great talent of being able to fling drool across two rooms, though.
Posted by: pie at November 12, 2003 10:34 PMFantastic post! Dogs are such great animals as they are so free with their love.
Posted by: Tiger at November 12, 2003 11:18 PM