This past weekend was so much fun! Lawrence and I attended my high school reunion and pre-reunion party in Cincinnati. It has been 40 years since I graduated from high school, and my, have times and my friends changed! It was wonderful to reconnect and try to catch up, but a few hours was totally […]

June 17, 2014 During our Rotary Club meeting this morning, we had a guest speaker talk with us about Parkinson’s Disease. The speaker told of her experience with the disease from a unique perspective: she was a nurse. She had no idea what was wrong with her initially. People told her that her arm was […]

Previously, all my posts have been about what led up to the present state of The Health Club for Seniors. From now on, all the posts will be about recent happenings related to The Club and tips and lessons learned about how to improve our health. These past two weeks have flown by because we […]

Our finances were in dire straits. Financial services professionals must undergo extensive training and education to begin to help clients with their finances, and they must also find their own clients. It is essentially one’s own business. If ‘contracted’ with a company, office space must be rented. The contracted company will pay for the space […]

While serving as a caregiver to my mother-in-law during March through June, I worked with SCORE and the Chamber of Commerce and the Small Business Administration to learn all I could. I also worked to write policies and design programs for Grace Place. We had submitted our application for a certificate of need March 3, […]

Marjorie came to live with us the day after my birthday, March 9, 2011. This time, I cleaned out the room that was my office and set up an office in the basement. We had installed a garden window in the room that was her bedroom when she lived with us two years prior, which […]

While Milford was in the nursing home, life went on at home. It was almost as if we had two homes: our home and the nursing home. Plus we had our work. My duties as administrator of the summer programs at Sayre School were ramping up at the time Milford went into the nursing home. […]

Milford was a kindly, highly intelligent man before his brain was ravaged by Alzheimer’s. Even in the short time he lived with us, I saw him become increasingly aggressive. Marjorie told me that he was determined to go down the stairs, where we had installed a strong oak gate. When Marjorie tried to prevent him […]

Weddings are rather like babies being born and people dying. One cannot predict when they will happen. Of course, each may be forced to happen at a certain time, but that is not always for the best. And so it was with our son and his bride. They had met in Washington State, while our […]

The cost of the adult day center was reasonable, much less than  home care or a nursing home. Most adult day centers charge the same amount today that they charged in 2007 because Medicaid has not given them an increase in their reimbursement rate in over 10 years. Medicaid pays 10.28 per hour, and most […]