Kitty Scanlan Occupational Therapist Page 495
“Being sick can be like going through early development stages all over again….It’s like being a child again, to be sick.”
I picked this quote because I believe it to be very true. Working with people who are elderly and sick you see these changes. You watch them not be able to do things they used to be able to do. Maybe a few years ago or maybe just a few days ago, some constantly need help with things that are considered simple. Feeding them selves, getting up from a chair even just picking something up. As you get older the “simple” things get harder to do day by day.
Betsy De Lacy Patients’ Representative Page 499
“I can walk down the hall with my chin draggin’, I’m tired and hot. The minute I hit that room, shoulders back and a big smile on my face.
This quote reminded me of myself, and my art paper. Where I work I do the same thing. You have to remember that just for a few minutes it’s not about you and what’s going on in your life. The time you spend with them should be spent all about them. Your there for their needs and it’s not the other way around.
Carmelita Lester
“The person doesn’t know what’s happening. But you take care of a person, you can see the difference. It makes you sad, because if you live long enough, you figure you will be the same.”
I felt as though this had to do with my topic the most. She is talking about having a patient with Alzheimer’s disease. A person with Alzheimer’s usually does not know what is going on. On a rare occasion they might have a small idea but it very unlikely. Having it run in the family you start wondering you if anybody is going to get it next. Will it be your Dad? Mom? Sister? Brother? Grandparents?
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