Life Suck?

 

If you ever feel like your life sucks, or is more trouble than it's worth ... go visit a nursing home.

 

Now, I'm not saying that everyone in the nursing home is living in misery. What I'm saying is that you have a group of people here, who would probably love to be anywhere else than wheeling themselves in a wheelchair at approximately .5 mpd (miles per day) back and forth from the sitting room to their bed. My grandfather is in a nursing home, and I go see him twice a day. He's doing well, but his only problem is lung cancer. Other than shortness of breath, he is fairly independent.

 

However, I see men and women who are taken out of bed, showered and dressed and wheeled into a hallway or sitting room and then left there to 'make a day of it.' Some of them stare out of a glass door at the world outside. Some of them have a set-up that keeps them from falling forward out of their wheelchair, so they just lean over and sleep all day. Others spend their days laying in their beds, no doubt wishing the end would just come.

 

So ... if you're having a bad day, think about those folks who are spending the end of their lives in limbo ... just waiting for the inevitable.