Day Five:
Hello Readers,
This day had more of a
pleasant demeanor to it compared to Day Four. On this day I visited another
nursing home with Dr. M and experienced something other than the sensation of
depression and sadness.
My experience at this nursing
home was the polar opposite of what I felt on Day Four. As I walked past the
front doors of the home, I was immediately greeted with the sight of blue and
yellow finches. The walls were the color of sunshine and decorated with
Valentine’s Day decorations. The patients and nurses within the walls of the
home were smiling and joyful despite the circumstance that led to their
residence there. At the other home, the walls remained a bleak grey color and
were hardly varnished with anything other than patient sheets. Instead of
smiles and happiness, the other home had an aura of melancholy and the nurses
and patients wore expressions of resignation and anger.
The stark differences I
noticed between Day Four’s nursing home and Five’s only serves to support my
idea that there are so many factors outside of one experience like there are so
many factors outstanding of a personality test that it is almost impossible to
say that one person should do this rather than that. To elaborate, let me
define what a nursing home is, it is a
place for people who don't need to be in a hospital but can't be cared for at
home who have nursing aides and skilled nurses on hand 24 hours a day.
Basically it is a place where an individual baby-sits someone until they pass.
As depressing as the thought of withering away in the presence of people who do
not know you and who are usually unable to help, it can be altered. At this
nursing home, the elderly people that resided there were living an almost
normal life, in both the acute and chronic. Despite the melancholic notion of a
nursing home, the effort that the nurses put in they almost made the idea
appealing.
What I took
away from this comparison was: what an experience can be and are two completely
different things and an affirmation that there are more outlaying factors than
meets the eye.
Thanks for Reading.
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