Author Topic: nursing homes (Read 3774 times)

songbird · « **Reply #5 on:** July 14, 2012, 08:01:17 AM »

Wow, it would be great to have a True Catholic owned and operated care facility! And with euthanasia the way it is, and it is even behind our backs, without even signing anything I see our life expendency short.

sedetrad · « **Reply #6 on:** July 14, 2012, 08:02:49 AM »

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long term care insurance for yourself and your parents.

The above insurance becomes very prohibitively expensive when your parents reach 60 years of age. My father had to drop this insurance for he and my mother due to the horrendous cost. They are both fit and healthy non smokers. My father is also relativity affluent. The cost was just too high.

PenitentWoman · « **Reply #7 on:** July 14, 2012, 09:23:51 AM »

So sad. :cry:

Around Christmas time I started taking the baby to visit the nursing home that is right by where we live. Elderly people just seem to love babies. We have started making it a regular thing for after mass on Sundays since we have no family obligations like other people do. It is so sad to me how few of the residents have visitors that come, especially on Sunday of all days.

One of the ladies has knit 2 hats and a blanket for my little girl. So sweet.

Elizabeth · « **Reply #8 on:** July 14, 2012, 11:13:23 AM »

This obscene situation is a direct result of no more Nursing Sisters, no more great convents, no vocations.

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We are supposed to have nuns help us die properly.

We had the Ursulines, The Alexis Brothers, Daughters of Charity, Sisters of Mercy etc. etc. etc. to care for the sick and dying. Also, the presence of these religious taught society how to deal with illness and death.

My first job in High School was at a nursing home, part of a property of an abandoned convent. This whole issue is an atrocity. Even priests can't get their fellow priests over for Last Rites. Just imagine how many people are going to Hell; it's sick!

Tiffany · « **Reply #9 on:** July 14, 2012, 11:55:13 AM »

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So sad. :cry:

Around Christmas time I started taking the baby to visit the nursing home that is right by where we live. Elderly people just seem to love babies. We have started making it a regular thing for after mass on Sundays since we have no family obligations like other people do. It is so sad to me how few of the residents have visitors that come, especially on Sunday of all days.

One of the ladies has knit 2 hats and a blanket for my little girl. So sweet.

Maybe you could bring her some yarn, look next time you are at a thrift store, look on Craigslist or just ask around, there might be a knitter in your parish with a stash of yarn and she would be thrilled to give some to a nursing home resident. Caron Simply Soft is a soft yarn and it's about $3.50 a skein @ Wal-Mart.