LOVE For me, there are so many wonderful, thoughtful, and heart warming things that happen after an accident that it hasn’t given me time to write about the untoward parts of trashing a car, breaking four ribs and cutting up and bruising a face.
Here’s the latest! as a patient advocate at Care One Care Center on Route 36 in Middletown, I’m a volunteer who visits the care center regularly, chats with the residents, learn what they like about the place, what they don’t like and what problems, if any, they have with their care, food, or anything else while at the care center.
I urge staff and the administrator…who are all terrific to work with, to correct situations, change or add things, or simply to correct whatever complaints I hear. It’s part of my volunteer ‘job’, for which I do have to be certified but have been doing it for more than 10 years, to keep the state Office of Long Term Care updated. They are the ones who make sure things do get done properly. And residents are the top priority.
During my more than a decade at what used to be known as King James, any complaints are always addressed and taken care of before I even have to file reports with the state. More than anything, I always realize the love and care these employees, be they nurses, aides, or maintenance have for their residents. To so many of them,, it’s all family and the care shows it.
After residents learned of my accident, they truly made me feel part of their family.
Michele Dyson is the activities director, a keen leader who is comparatively new at Care One but quick to learn what the residents like and just as quickly add even new activities for the to enjoy. One of the many activities at Care One is their arts program where residents are invited to do all kinds of art work, be it with paints, crayons, stitching needles or clay. So when some of the residents learned that their friend Muriel was in an accident, they jumped at Michele’s suggestion to tell me themselves.
So their gift to me was put into color, print, and smiles and sent over to me by Michele.
How can you think negatively about a personal accident when friends in wheelchairs or on crutches, people with long term pain and serious illness, people who cannot see loved ones every day or perhaps don’t even have family members around, send loving messages to someone they only know because of a shared laugh, a warm handshake or a happy smile?
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Visit a nursing home, call a person alone at home, check on a neighbor, do something special for someone this Christmas. Go to church or take some moments to pause, reflect and say thank you to God or whatever higher power you call Him, that life is truly as good as it is when you’re surrounded by love and thoughtful people.
Talk about the best gift of Christmas? It’s love.
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