Very Disturbing. This is something that happened in an Aged Care Centre. The people who lived there have small apartments but they all eat at a central Cafeteria. breakfast so my friend went upstairs and knocked on his door to see if everything was OK. She could hear him through the door. He said that he was running late, and would be down shortly, so she went back to the Dining area.
An hour later, he still hadn't arrived; so she went back up towards his room and she found him on the stairs. He was coming down the stairs but was having a hell of time. He had a death grip on the hand rail and seemed to have trouble getting his legs to work right.
She told him she was going to call an ambulance but he told her no, he wasn't in any pain, and just wanted to have his breakfast. So she helped him the rest of the way down the stairs and he had his breakfast
When he tried to return to his room he was completely unable to get up even the first step so they called an ambulance for him.
A couple hours later she called the hospital to see how he was doing. The receptionist there said he was fine, he just had both of his legs in one leg of his boxer shorts.
Not something I was personally involved in but a friend saw it. She saw this old boy 'interfering' with himself before a running race but it was just too obvious! She told her partner, who just said that men had to 'arrange themselves' sometimes to get comfortable. She watched him some more and it was just too much to bear, she went over to talk to him. It turned out he had an ailment that caused his leg to flick out to the side and in an effort to rectify the problem he had tied a length of wood to his leg and his side to keep it in check. Old folks!
The thought of starting off life with diapers and wearing them again in final years doesn't give me much joy but my children having to change them would be too much to contemplate @xSharp:
@Rusham: it would be difficult yes even disgusting, but i believe would be good even healthy for ones mind if everyone were to practice compassion once in a while, i will care for my parents despite their shortcomings.
