[Magdalen] Respite care

[Jon Egger]

My home hospice's view on respite care is placing ME in a nursing home for
a week so kaminari (My nickname for Dawn and Becca. Japanese, rough
translation "goddesses of thunder.") so they can have some rest.  I've told
home hospice that the last thing they need is me in a nursing home.  I'd
try to see everyone, and plan some fun (food fight, everyone turning their
call light on at the same time, etc), and make the place lighten up for a
while.

As an aside, I have two close name clergy friends, and we call ourselves
the SoBo: Sons of Boanergis.

Grace and peace,
brud

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> joining you in prayer Marion, for your friends Anna and Gord.
> Lynn
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> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not
> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me."
> attributed to Erma Bombeck
> "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk
> by Richard Rohr
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> From: "Marion Thompson" <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 10:01 AM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: [Magdalen] Respite care
>
>
> On the subject, I am involved in a respite time involving 25-yr Whitevale
>> friends and neighbours.  Once bright-eyed and funny and a talented weaver,
>> Anna has descended into a frail, grey, staring and wordless state over the
>> last years, now totally dependent for all her needs.  Gord gives her loving
>> sacrificial care pretty much on his own and we have watched him age before
>> our eyes.  He has arranged a week of respite care out of a newly-discovered
>> entitlement of 100 days in a calendar year and he has gone to Victoria BC
>> for a visit with old friends, his only break in all this time.  It happened
>> that the only place he could arrange is right here in Port Hope, so I am
>> toddling over each day to spend some time with Anna, who may or may not
>> know at all who I am, perhaps a vaguely familiar face, perhaps not.  I'll
>> be able to give him a more independent view of how it seems to have gone.
>>
>>  I pray  this is the beginning of some longer term possibility, because
>> to me they have passed that point of need.  I hope his break gives him the
>> taste for more!
>>
>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>
>
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