Comments on: Elder Care Video – Helping Gladys from the Car Into the House

By: Hattie

Hattie — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:06:16 +0000

It did cross my mind that maybe the outdoor walker was considered not clean and so you would need another one for indoors.

By: Valerie Johnson

Valerie Johnson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:29:41 +0000

@ Hattie – I had to laugh when you asked about the two walkers. Why does she have 2? I don’t know.

Have you ever heard the story about the woman who would buy a ham for Thanksgiving dinner, cut the end of the ham off and then put it in her baking pan? The woman’s daughter asked her why she cut the end off and the lady said, that’s the way my mother did it. When the woman asked her mother, the mother replied “my baking pan was too short so I had to cut off the end of the ham.”

The two walker thing – that’s the way my daughter did it when she was taking care of Gladys.

@Judy – A simple solution to an exasperating issue.

By: Hattie

Hattie — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:02:49 +0000

Actually, I thought Gladys did very well. She has a lot of will power, that’s clear. She must have been strong and graceful in her better days. She did not slump into her chair but sat down very nicely.
Question: Why the two walkers?

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Social Networks Can Help or Hinder Ministry | Your Ministry Helper — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:30:25 +0000

[...] comment about how tired I am or that I was up most of the night with Gladys. I recently posted a video that shows what it takes for us to get Gladys out of the car and into the house (20 feet, six [...]

By: KWiz

KWiz — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:12:22 +0000

I said something similar to someone about our house, that we should’ve purchased something a bit more navigatable; to which she said, it was right for us at the time we bought the house, which was over four years ago. For me, I’d never thought I’d be taking care of a parent. Never in a million years.

Thanks, Valerie!