Today's article is another installment in Brother P.'s column, "Lessons From the Nursing Home." At the nursing home where I work, I occasionally try to help people prepare for...
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The Professor
Today's article is another installment in Brother P.'s column, "Lessons From the Nursing Home." I work at a nursing home. I help people get moving, and that sometimes includes...
The Courage to Look Past the Fear
Today's article is part of our summer series, "Be of Good Courage." I work in a nursing home, often trying to get the residents to walk as part of their physical therapy. ...
The Case of the Missing Pants
Today's article is another installment in Brother P.'s column, "Lessons From the Nursing Home." At the nursing home where I work, we had a situation where this guy lost his...
Why Am I Shouting at People?
Today's article is another installment in Brother P.'s column, "Lessons From the Nursing Home." In the nursing home, I frequently find myself needing to work with someone who...
Eyes Set on the Treasure Above
I work in a nursing home, and once I got to work with this very lovely little 80-something-year-old lady who was suuuuppppeeeerrrr cute! She was pleasant, friendly, grateful, just the kind of lady you want to adopt as your grandma. But she had another side to her.
The Thankful (Dying) Man
This article is another installment in Brother P's series, "Lessons From the Nursing Home." Occasionally at church you hear about the merits of being thankful. I had the...
What You Focus On
This article is another installment in Brother P's series, "Lessons From the Nursing Home." I work in a nursing home, and much of my job consists of getting people out of bed and...
Don’t Reach for the Rattlesnake
This article is another installment in Brother P's series, "Lessons From the Nursing Home." My daily occupation is to help nursing home patients walk. Once, we had this guy who...
The 100 Hall
This article is another installment in Brother P's series, "Lessons From the Nursing Home." In the nursing home where I work, we have a hallway that is locked. The 100 hall is...