Dear Milton,
So you have your new life in a nursing home. It smells bad. Most folks there cannot communicate well, due to impaired mental and physical capacity, so for you as a blind man, it is particularly isolating. You have needs that require custodial care, but they aren’t shaving you enough, you aren’t as clean as you used to be, your legs are starting to swell so now you rely on being moved in a wheelchair…. and you seemed more remote when at first I tried to engage you in conversation. We’ve been gone for two weeks on vacation; how can you have changed so quickly? Once we started talking – I asked LOTS of questions, you started to seem more like yourself again. Read More »
