they made me wanna go to rehab
A couple of weekends ago my friend Kat, her aunt, and I went to a convalescent facility where senior citizens undergo rehabilitation prior to going home. They have to stay there because they have to do physical therapy. Some of them don’t have people that can tend to their needs 24/7 so it’s better for them to just be there where there are nurses that can help them. It was great to see that despite their circumstances, the patients were still grateful for what they have going on in their lives. Some of them are even pretty upbeat and no one was a miser. Hence, I’ve thought about what I’m thankful for. These are my 3 favorite things in my daily routine that I thank God for:
- hot showers- given that I’m in CA, the weather is already cold for me. I’m probably the only one here wearing a trench coat at home.
- exercise- I have full range of motion of all my limbs!!
- YM, email, chikka- I’ve never used these tools as much as I do now. I miss my mommy! L
Of course 2/3 of the nurses there were Filipino. Isn’t it great that our most valuable national resource is still brainy manpower? My take home one-liner from the whole experience came from a patient (the only one that would qualify as a semi-miser): “Fecal matter happens.”
Oh yes it does…
