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Nursing Home Diary – Flu Season Day 6
Today Gennadiy brought in the doctor again. The doctor spent a couple of hours examining the residents again, and identified three men and three women who appear to have pneumonia or similar serious conditions. He prescribed antibiotic injections for each of them, in addition to tablets. Most of the other residents are also taking antibiotic…
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Nursing Home Diary – Flu Season Day 5
So the good news is, the residents’ conditions all seem to have stabilized or improved since yesterday. Gennadiy is distributing the antibiotics the doctor prescribed 3 times per day – maybe that’s an important factor.So the biggest challenge today was simply that we were short-staffed again today because Ludmila, the woman whose job is to…
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Nursing Home Diary – Flu Season Day 4
Today has been much better than I expected – and certainly better than yesterday. The residents’ conditions seem to have stabilized, and some even seem to be improving. For example, Evon, the man who lost his wife yesterday, is getting out of bed and walking by himself into the residential activity hall for meals again.…
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Nursing Home Diary – Flu Season Day 3
Well, good news is Grandma Nina did enjoy eating the thickened apple juice this morning. In addition to thickening her fluids to a gelatinous consistency, we also moved her to an inclining bed, which makes it easier for her to eat. She was in a flat bed before, so she had to sit straight up…
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Nursing Home Diary – Flu Season Day 2
It was pretty tough at the nursing home again today. Several of the residents are already running fevers. Three residents also had slip-and-fall accidents today. Luckily, nobody was seriously injured. But falls haven’t been a common occurrence since I’ve been here, so to have three in one day is quite alarming. I guess maybe it’s…
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Nursing Home Diary – Flu Season Coming?
I was pretty busy helping out at the nursing home today. We are short-staffed because the director Gennadiy is away for the weekend and two of the regular staff are sick. So today nurse Evhenia and I did all of the “downstairs” work together. “Downstairs work” means everything except food preparation. Downstairs work includes sanitation…
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What a Wonderful World this Would Be
If purely naive good intentions could resolve human conflicts . . . what a wonderful world this would be! Today I helped the August Mission team unload a NuDay container filled chock-a-block with humanitarian aid materiel. Everything was donated by American families, and shipped across the ocean to Poland, shipping also paid for with donated…
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Flag Friendship
I’m spending this weekend in Khmelnytskyi, waiting to go to the Ukraine consulate in Lublin Poland early next week to get a volunteer service visa that will allow to continue working in Ukraine. Today, the August Mission team was planning to make a delivery to the Catholic church in Starocostantyanyiv. I didn’t have any important…
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Should We Never Meet Again
This week, from January 2 through January 9, I am volunteering again in the children’s safe activity space at the reception center for Ukrainian refugees in Przemysl, Poland. This week has been remarkably quiet; it seems very few Ukrainian refugees are on the move right now. So each day, we are only hosting a handful…
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He Walks!
This morning after breakfast at the nursing home for elderly and disabled folks, I was helping Svetlana, one of the nurses, with washing up and hygiene for some of the bed-ridden men. We were helping the men with showering and shaving. I was busy shaving one of the guys when I heard behind me an…
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