Paul Revere rides again
Where is Paul Revere when we need him? It seems like he should be racing through every hamlet and long-term care facility in America shrieking, “The vaccine is coming! The vaccine is coming!”
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A bear of very little brain
I can’t tell you the peace I feel from setting aside the unknowns of the election and the incomprehensible intricacies of delivering vaccines to long-term care facilities to consider our economic future.
You’ve got a friend
Sometimes I have to stretch to recite something joyful to share from the past week, as is requested at one of our regular work meetings. But this week, the task was easy.
Get up, Bambi
At this point, we dare not muse aloud about what else could possibly go wrong in 2020. It’s no longer about the second shoe dropping. We appear to be dealing with an evil centipede who still has at least 98 more.
The face mask effect
“I’ve never seen the faces of some of the people who work for me,” a nursing home administrator recently shared. The statement stunned me but shouldn’t have. Of course she hasn’t. Since the pandemic, new people on staff wore masks to their job interviews at the long-term care facility and are now hidden behind eye protection, too.
What the fires can’t destroy
With a pandemic continuing unabated, and now hurricanes, floods and wildfires ravaging large swaths of the nation, I don’t know how many more apocalyptic horsemen the long-term care profession is slated to face or can withstand.
It’s raining chocolate — hallelujah!
How fondly I remember the old days, pre-2020, when Googling “long-term care news” yielded different results
Put on a Stoic face
It seems like every third word I write these days is about the importance of masks. This has clearly become an obsession, and I need professional help to break it.
Waiting for the ice cream truck
There aren’t enough covers to pull over my head anymore.
Finding joy in the grueling now
Finding joy in the difference you make is perhaps all the inspiration any of us needs.
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