hw 28

For Michelle,

I liked how in your post you spoke about the way society views the sick and dying with the line "society separates us into groups in this case, the sick v.s. the healthy". I agree, we also tend to disconnect ourselves from the sick and dying or try to maintain our own health when that isn't always possible or if we're the ones sick and dying tend to cut ourselves off from the world around us. I think your friend experienced this isolation from others because you were the only one to visit her with her fever when no one else had.


For Leah,

I liked the line "Looking back i feel bad that i don't visit her as much as should because one day something can happen to her and i can't tell her what i wanted." because it showed me that you didn't want to have any regrets about the relationship you have with your grandmother. That you didn't want to disconnect yourself from her as she's with Alzheimer's. That you want to cherish every moment you have left with her which is important to you because life is not guaranteed to anyone.




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Larche,

The line I thought was beautifully written was "As I pushed her into her room she asked me to place her near the window where she likes to look out into the garden and read her bible which she says gives her strength." because of the imagery you used. That while reading it I could automatically image it in my head. How this simple act for this person was so important and strengthening was so sad. A line I thought was short and sweet, "It seemed like she had come to terms with her situation." Was short like I said it told something many of us I believe we must come to do when we began to die to come to terms with our illness or close death to not so distraught during this time.
- Michelle

Larche,
I thought that your post showed the connection you felt with this woman after you spoke to her for a while with the lines "I thanked her for talking to me and gave her a hug. It surprised me that I was hugging her, but it just felt like the natural response. I noticed she was hugging me tightly, which made me sad to pull away because I knew I’d been her only visitor outside of the nursing home." It also gave insight to how lonely some people in nursing homes can be because they don't get any visitors. That the old and sick in nursing homes are excluded from everyone else.
- Young mentor