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Wait for Rich’s Return
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Oleksandra’s Story
This is the third in a series of brief profiles of some of the internally displaced people (“IDP”s) who have sheltered at the assisted living home where I am volunteering as a nursing aid. Every morning beginning in early spring, Oleksandra Ivanovna goes out to pick a small bouquet of fresh flowers for the dormitory…
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Redux II
As I described in my post “Dressing Room Redux,” we were hoping to upgrade washing, bathing, laundry and general sanitation facilities at the nursing home for elderly and disabled IDPs (internally displaced people) where I am volunteering here in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine. Thanks to generous cash donations from a few friends and family, we have already…
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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 3
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Disproportionate Effects
Chatting with one of my fellow volunteers one morning about seasonal change in the weather we are experiencing here in Poland, we soon found ourselves engaged in a more fraught discussion about climate change. I commented that climate change on our planet has always been and still is a natural and normal phenomenon, and ultimately…
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