Simulating Duct Tape

i'm doomed. i build with the tv and pc on...

...or layers of silver decal sheet.

Doesn't that qualify as cruel and inhumane? I find that the old shows work best with my mother too. It takes enough time to explain the plot and characters several times anyway without having to explain concepts bizarrely foreign to her. The people who inhabit Springer and such are just outright trash to her and she'd never accept that they should even be allowed in polite society let alone on TV.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

My wife's in a nursing home for now and she parks herself there a lot, mainly because the "stimulating" and "creative" stuff that captures the old folks' attention drives her batty. Hell, if I had to suffer through some it I'd shoot myself.....arts & crafts geared to the level of primary school (not something a person with a masters in fine art is gonna tolerate at all) or really bad visiting "musicians".......yuck!!!!!

In this case it's more a matter of limited time slots for the larger rooms, only so much you can schedule and the majority like what's done. As long as she has a newspaper, some murder mystery book and the TV she does OK.....that and her smokes which she goes outside for. TV is good for background noise and there is some stuff she'll watch.

hell, i use tv for background noise. or listen to new music. i really like living alone, but a little human contact keeps me semi socialized.

I got an ex-wife working at a nursing home in the area and the stories I hear! If I ever end up in one they'll have to keep me doped up because I'd be listed as 'antisocial'. Apparently it's hard or expensive to get good nurses so they make do with whatever has a license and needs a job. The ex- finds herself filling in because she can't interest the staff in doing what they're paid for. She's not real popular with them and I can understand why. She has a way of irritating just about everybody she works with. It's partly a desire to do the best job she can and partly the less attractive side of her personality.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Saw this today and had to post it here. Some bloke has discovered yet another use for this product.

Digital Cowboy wrote:

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I worked one summer during college as a minimum wage orderly in a convalescent hospital, but really, with the exception of two patients, no one was convalescing, they were waiting to die. I was utterly disgusted with the attitudes of the other orderlies, not to mention the floor nurses--they simply thought of the patients as warehouse inventory, or worse. One or two exhibited a little compassion, but mostly, it was feed 'em quick, keep 'em secure in the bed, and hope they didn't do the big dump on your shift. I might have gone the same way if I hadn't got out of there in ten weeks. I don't think it would have mattered what you paid those orderlies--they didn't give a clam what the patients felt like--but maybe decent wages would have attracted people who were more competent and caring. I said as much in my exit interview withthe manager, but no one listens to a 20-year-old kid...

Mark Schynert