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title: "118 Nursing home Quotes by 94 authors"
description: "Browse 118 Nursing home quotes by 94 authors. Discover the best Nursing home sayings and thoughts."
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> [For all the love you've given me, I will one day pay your nursing home bill.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/for-all-the-love-you-ve-given-me-i-will-one-day-pay-your-nursing-home/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rickie-lee-jones/my-worst-job-was-working-in-the-laundry-of-a-nursing-home/)

[Rickie Lee Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rickie-lee-jones/)

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> [Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/someone-has-said-the-best-nursing-home-is-the-u-s-senate/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/be-nice-to-your-kids-they-ll-choose-your-nursing-home/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-wright/be-nice-to-your-children-after-all-they-are-going-to-choose-your/)

[Steven Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-wright/)

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> [I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florence-king/i-d-rather-rot-on-my-own-floor-than-be-found-by-a-bunch-of-bingo/)

[Florence King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florence-king/)

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> [I don't want to hang around in a wheelchair in a nursing home. I don't. I don't want to be like that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-walsh/i-don-t-want-to-hang-around-in-a-wheelchair-in-a-nursing-home-i-don-t/)

[Louis Walsh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-walsh/)

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> [“I haven’t seen my old friends in a while. Maybe next week I’ll go visit them in the nursing home.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jarod-kintz/i-haven-t-seen-my-old-friends-in-a-while-maybe-next-week-i-ll-go/)

[Jarod Kintz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jarod-kintz/)

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> [My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erykah-badu/my-work-as-a-doula-also-extends-all-the-way-to-the-end-of-life-i-sit/)

[Erykah Badu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erykah-badu/)

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> [It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-renzi/it-is-common-for-rural-hospitals-and-nursing-homes-to-operate-as-a/)

[Rick Renzi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-renzi/)

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> [“That year, one of our lab members noticed that he had written two notes to himself, which he kept in his wallet,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suzanne-corkin/that-year-one-of-our-lab-members-noticed-that-he-had-written-two/)

[Suzanne Corkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suzanne-corkin/)

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> [I'm bored, I think I'll put on a grim reaper costume and stand across the street from the nearest nursing home and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-m-bored-i-think-i-ll-put-on-a-grim-reaper-costume-and-stand-across/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Let me tell you something, Doctor. There is no way in heaven or hell that we will be sending Melody away to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sharon-m-draper/let-me-tell-you-something-doctor-there-is-no-way-in-heaven-or-hell/)

[Sharon M. Draper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sharon-m-draper/)

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> [I'm going to have cute boobs 'til I'm 90, so there's that. I'll have the best boobs in the nursing home. I'll…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-applegate/i-m-going-to-have-cute-boobs-til-i-m-90-so-there-s-that-i-ll-have-the/)

[Christina Applegate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-applegate/)

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> [“The room does not smell like apple. It smells like frog juice, a cross between a nursing home and potato salad. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-halse-anderson/the-room-does-not-smell-like-apple-it-smells-like-frog-juice-a-cross/)

[Laurie Halse Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-halse-anderson/)

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> [I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/misty-upham/i-have-interviewed-so-many-people-who-are-put-into-nursing-homes-or/)

[Misty Upham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/misty-upham/)

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> [The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jake-shimabukuro/the-ukulele-totally-fits-that-whole-hipster-community-or-whatever-you/)

[Jake Shimabukuro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jake-shimabukuro/)

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> [Humans are born, small, weak and helpless. That's why we have family. And the elders of the family are the honoured guardians…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-titus/humans-are-born-small-weak-and-helpless-that-s-why-we-have-family-and/)

[Christopher Titus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-titus/)

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> [“Can any of us pinpoint the moment when we've lost our younger selves, lost joy in the simple things, stopped celebrating life?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cheryl-jarvis/can-any-of-us-pinpoint-the-moment-when-we-ve-lost-our-younger-selves/)

[Cheryl Jarvis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cheryl-jarvis/)

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> [“Hospice deploys nurses, doctors, chaplains, and social workers to help people with a fatal illness have the fullest possible lives right now—much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/atul-gawande/hospice-deploys-nurses-doctors-chaplains-and-social-workers-to-help/)

[Atul Gawande](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/atul-gawande/)

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> [There's instinctual discomfort about using evidence of past immunity as a factor for decisions about health, work or even questions like whether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-gottlieb/there-s-instinctual-discomfort-about-using-evidence-of-past-immunity/)

[Scott Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-gottlieb/)

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> [“Happy National Philanthropy Day! Do a good deed today and make the lives of others better. Things you can do(if you can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kambiz-mostofizadeh/happy-national-philanthropy-day-do-a-good-deed-today-and-make-the/)

[Kambiz Mostofizadeh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kambiz-mostofizadeh/)

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> [“All, Pyle? Wait until you're afraid of living ten years alone with no companion and a nursing home at the end of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/all-pyle-wait-until-you-re-afraid-of-living-ten-years-alone-with-no/)

[Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/)

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> [“I love tattoos on women,” said Henry. “Although the last one I saw was on Sally Mae, a friend of mine at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kristen-middleton/i-love-tattoos-on-women-said-henry-although-the-last-one-i-saw-was-on/)

[Kristen Middleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kristen-middleton/)

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> [Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/many-of-life-s-decisions-are-hard-what-kind-of-career-should-you/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kuttner/by-default-we-have-created-a-system-of-nursing-home-care-for-the-aged/)

[Robert Kuttner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kuttner/)

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> [“Hello, spawn!” I coo at Kayla’s baby brother as he waddles into her room. He burps at me. “It looks like you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-wolf/hello-spawn-i-coo-at-kayla-s-baby-brother-as-he-waddles-into-her-room/)

[Sara Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-wolf/)

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> [Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/q-you-re-going-to-go-to-duke-you-re-going-to-be-a-very-successful/)

[John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/)

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> [“When Mom and Dad die, they’re taken care of by strangers in a nursing home two towns over. The kids don’t have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-eisler/when-mom-and-dad-die-they-re-taken-care-of-by-strangers-in-a-nursing/)

[Barry Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-eisler/)

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> [I don't know what will happen next My only memories come when I reflect My life has suddenly turned a sharp bend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guardian/i-don-t-know-what-will-happen-next-my-only-memories-come-when-i/)

[Guardian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guardian/)

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> [“Three days a week she helped at the Manor Nursing Home, where people proved their keenness by reciting received analyses of current…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/three-days-a-week-she-helped-at-the-manor-nursing-home-where-people/)

[Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/)

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> [I had the experience of having my grandmother in a nursing home at the end of her life, and had dementia set…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tamara-jenkins/i-had-the-experience-of-having-my-grandmother-in-a-nursing-home-at/)

[Tamara Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tamara-jenkins/)

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> [“We know that media vita in morte sumus or, “in the midst of life we are in death.” We begin dying the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caitlin-doughty/we-know-that-media-vita-in-morte-sumus-or-in-the-midst-of-life-we-are/)

[Caitlin Doughty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caitlin-doughty/)

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> [“10. What realities are captured in the story of Lou Sanders and his daughter, Shelley, regarding home care for an aging and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/atul-gawande/10-what-realities-are-captured-in-the-story-of-lou-sanders-and-his/)

[Atul Gawande](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/atul-gawande/)

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> [“how she’d ended up in Sanborn Place. That was when she told me about her son Wayne. Wayne was a twin born…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/atul-gawande/how-she-d-ended-up-in-sanborn-place-that-was-when-she-told-me-about/)

[Atul Gawande](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/atul-gawande/)

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> [It was a busy morning, approximately 8:30AM, when an elderly gentleman in his 80's, arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pooja/it-was-a-busy-morning-approximately-8-30am-when-an-elderly-gentleman/)

[Pooja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pooja/)

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> [“Perhaps Bufalino’s closest friend was Philadelphia crime boss Angelo Bruno. Law enforcement referred to Bufalino as “the quiet Don Rosario”; Bruno was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/perhaps-bufalino-s-closest-friend-was-philadelphia-crime-boss-angelo/)

[Charles Brandt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-brandt/)

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> [“They started calling people my grandfather’s age “generation ink”. He represents the era when extensive tattoos tipped into the mainstream. Now the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-milligan/they-started-calling-people-my-grandfather-s-age-generation-ink-he/)

[Nick Milligan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-milligan/)

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> [“We have imagined that a white hospital train with a white Diesel engine has taken you through many a tunnel to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-nabokov/we-have-imagined-that-a-white-hospital-train-with-a-white-diesel/)

[Vladimir Nabokov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-nabokov/)

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> [“One day, however, they had an experience that revealed just how fragile their life had become. Bella developed a cold, causing fluid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/atul-gawande/one-day-however-they-had-an-experience-that-revealed-just-how-fragile/)

[Atul Gawande](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/atul-gawande/)

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## Top authors on Nursing home

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-atul-gawande-15570.jpg) Atul Gawande 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nursing-home/atul-gawande/)
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                        "text": "“Can any of us pinpoint the moment when we've lost our younger selves, lost joy in the simple things, stopped celebrating life? For years-decades-we work, raise a family, plant begonias. Then one day we wake up to chemotherapy and eulogies and nursing home visits and the realization that we haven't had a real vacation in years. And all we can do is ask: how did life get so hard?”",
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                        "text": "“Happy National Philanthropy Day! Do a good deed today and make the lives of others better. Things you can do(if you can afford it): a. Pay for a student to attend College or University b. Make a donation to a bride and groom before they get married c. Donate time to volunteer at a hospital or nursing home d. Buy food and give it to a homeless individual e. Volunteer at a soup kitchen”",
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                        "text": "“All, Pyle? Wait until you're afraid of living ten years alone with no companion and a nursing home at the end of it. THen you'll start running in any direction, even away from that girl in the red dressing-gown, to find someone, anyone, who last until you are through.”",
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                        "text": "“I love tattoos on women,” said Henry. “Although the last one I saw was on Sally Mae, a friend of mine at the nursing home. Her tattoo was supposed to be a clover-leaf, but damn if it didn’t look more like a beanstalk. Course, the thing must have grown over fifty years.” Tiny laughed and started the engine. Paige rubbed her forehead. “God, I’m not going to even ask where that was located.”",
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                        "text": "Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.",
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                        "text": "“Hello, spawn!” I coo at Kayla’s baby brother as he waddles into her room. He burps at me. “It looks like you guys speak the same language,” Kayla quips. “Where was that sass when Jack was making you cry at Avery’s party?” “Uh, hello? He’s my crush? I’m not going to sass him.” “Flash ‘em the sass before you flash ‘em the ass.” “What kind of saying is that?” She laughs. “Grandma-saying. She’s the head of the motorcycle gang at her nursing home.”",
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                        "text": "Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole little life, and then you're going to die, and in the last moments, when you're chocking on your own bile in the nursing home, you'll say to yourself:'Well, I wasted my whole goddamned life, but at least I broke into SeaWorld with Margo Roth Spiegelman my senior year of high school. At least I carpe'd that one diem.",
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                        "text": "“When Mom and Dad die, they’re taken care of by strangers in a nursing home two towns over. The kids don’t have to see them go. They don’t even have to see them after. They just get a “we’re sorry to inform you” call late that night from the institution’s management, for whom such calls are as routine as putting out the weekly garbage is for a suburban homeowner. The funeral home picks up the body. The cemetery buries it. Unless you’re a professional, you might live your whole life without seeing someone in the moment of leaving his own.”",
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                        "text": "I don't know what will happen next My only memories come when I reflect My life has suddenly turned a sharp bend Because my great grandfather is now at his end He went to a home in a whole different state Soon Heaven Will again open Heaven's Gates The final time I saw him, I thought I'd see him again I thought I'd visit where new memories began But then I heard of his transportation to a nursing home Right then and there, I crawled into my dome. I didn't get the change to say goodbye I didn't think he would this soon die But the suffering of his and all others wont continue for too long And we will all continue moving along.",
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                        "text": "“Three days a week she helped at the Manor Nursing Home, where people proved their keenness by reciting received analyses of current events. All the Manor residents watched television day and night, informed to the eyeballs like everyone else and rushed for time, toward what end no one asked. Their cupidity and self-love were no worse than anyone else's, but their many experiences' having taught them so little irked Lou. One hated tourists, another southerners; another despised immigrants. Even dying, they still held themselves in highest regard. Lou would have to watch herself. For this way of thinking began to look like human nature--as if each person of two or three billion would spend his last vital drop to sustain his self-importance.”",
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                        "text": "I had the experience of having my grandmother in a nursing home at the end of her life, and had dementia set in with my father. He was in a nursing home with dementia at the end of his life, but it happened for me personally 10 years ago. My father was much older than my mother, so I experienced it as a pretty young person. People's parents die at various ages, but my father died of mortality. He died of being an old person. Illness and stuff happened, but essentially, he was old and he was going to die.",
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                        "text": "“10. What realities are captured in the story of Lou Sanders and his daughter, Shelley, regarding home care for an aging and increasingly frail parent? What conflicts did Shelley face between her intentions and the practical needs of the family and herself? What does the book illustrate about the universal nature of this struggle in families around the globe? 11. A key concept that emerges from the author’s interviews is “home.” Much more than just the place where you go to bed at night, home evokes a set of values and freedoms for many as they face old age. As you consider the life you want lead in old age, what does home mean to you? 12. Reading about Bill Thomas’s Eden Alternative in Chapter 5, what came to mind when he outlined the Three Plagues of nursing home existence: boredom, loneliness, and helplessness? What do you think matters most when you envision eldercare? 13. What can be learned from the medical treatment choices that were made in the final days of Sara Monopoli’s life? 14. What are your feelings about hospice care? When is the appropriate time to introduce hospice in the treatment of those with life-threatening illness?”",
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                        "text": "“how she’d ended up in Sanborn Place. That was when she told me about her son Wayne. Wayne was a twin born without enough oxygen. He developed cerebral palsy—he had trouble with spasticity when he walked—and was mentally delayed, as well. In adulthood, he could handle basic aspects of his life, but he needed some degree of structure and supervision. When he was in his thirties, Sanborn Place opened as a place offering just that and he was its first resident. Over the three decades since, she visited him almost every day for most of the day. But when her fall put her in a nursing home, she was no longer permitted to visit him, and he wasn’t cognitively developed enough to seek to visit her. They were all but completely separated. There seemed no way around the situation. Despairing, she thought their time together was over. Carson, however, had a flash of brilliance and worked out how to take them both in. They now had apartments almost next to each other.”",
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                        "text": "It was a busy morning, approximately 8:30AM, when an elderly gentleman in his 80's, arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb. He stated that he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 AM. As a nurse, I took his vital signs and had him take a seat, knowing it would be over an hour before someone would to able to see him. I saw him looking at his watch and decided, since I was not busy with another patient, I would evaluate his wound. On exam, it was well healed, so I talked to one of the doctors, got the needed supplies to remove his stitches and redress his wound. While taking care of his wound, we began to engage in conversation. I asked him if he had another doctor's appointment this morning, as he was in such a hurry. The elderly gentleman told me no, that he needed to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his wife. I then inquired as to her health. He told me that she had been there for a while and that she was a victim of Alzheimer's as we talked, I asked if she would be upset if he was a bit late. He replied that she no longer knew who he was, that she had not recognized him in five years now. Note: Alzheimer's destroys brain cells, causing problems with memory, thinking and behavior severe enough to affect work, lifelong hobbies or social life. I was surprised, and asked him, And you still go every morning, even though she doesn't know who you are? He smiled as he patted my hand and said, She doesn't know me, but I still know who she is. I had to hold back tears as he left, I had goose bumps on my arm, and thought, That is the kind of love I want in my life. True love is neither physical, nor romantic. True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been, will be and will not be. The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything The Map of Luxury; they just make the best of everything they have. Read more: http://www.stories.pk/urdu-hindi/tru-lovers-desi-stories-t3511.htmlixzz1ur8JF3Vk",
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                        "text": "“Perhaps Bufalino’s closest friend was Philadelphia crime boss Angelo Bruno. Law enforcement referred to Bufalino as “the quiet Don Rosario”; Bruno was known as the “Docile Don” for his similar low-key approach to heading a major crime family. Like Bufalino’s family, the Bruno crime family was not permitted to deal in drugs. Because of his perceived old-fashioned ways Bruno was killed by greedy underlings in 1980. Bruno’s demise would lead to everlasting anarchy in his family. His successor, Philip “Chicken Man” Testa, was literally blown up a year after taking over. Testa’s successor, Nicodemus “Little Nicky” Scarfo, is now serving multiple life sentences for murder, having been betrayed by his own underboss and nephew. Little Nicky’s successor, John Stanfa, is serving five consecutive life sentences for murder. Frank Sheeran got a Christmas card every year from John Stanfa in his Leavenworth cell. John Stanfa’s successor, Ralph Natale, is the first boss to turn government informant and testify against his own men. Frank Sheeran calls Philadelphia “the city of rats.” On the other hand, Russell Bufalino lived a long life. He died of old age in a nursing home in 1994 at the age of ninety. He controlled his “family” until the day he died, and unlike Angelo Bruno’s Philadelphia family, not a sign of discord has been reported in the Bufalino family since his death. Frank”",
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                        "text": "“They started calling people my grandfather’s age “generation ink”. He represents the era when extensive tattoos tipped into the mainstream. Now the old men and women sit together in the lounge room of my grandfather’s nursing home, watching daytime television. They don’t watch sport. Tattoos from their wrist to shoulders and across their chest, snake beneath their woolen cardigans and cotton shirts. Withered souls eternally painted in often incomprehensible scrawling. Faded colours. But that’s not to say that they regret getting inked. Far from it. It’s a part of who they are. As real and as precious as the blank skin they were born with. Their tastes in music haven’t mellowed either. They slowly approach the sound-system, leaning on their walking frame, and skip to songs by Pantera and Sepultura. Or Metallica, Slayer and Iron Maiden. My grandfather enjoyed punk and post-rock bands like Millencolin, Thursday, Coheed and Cambria or At The Drive-In.”",
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                        "text": "“We have imagined that a white hospital train with a white Diesel engine has taken you through many a tunnel to a mountainous country by the sea. You are getting well there. But you cannot write because your fingers are so very weak. Moonbeams cannot hold even a white pencil. The picture is pretty, but how long can it stay on the screen? We expect the next slide, but the magic-lantern man has none left. Shall we let the theme of a long separation expand till it breaks into tears? Shall we say (daintily handling the disinfected white symbols) that the train is Death and the nursing home Paradise? Or shall we leave the picture to fade by itself, to mingle with other fading impressions? But we want to write letters to you even if you cannot answer. Shall we suffer the slow wobbly scrawl (we can manage our name and two or three words of greeting) to work its conscientious and unnecessary way across a post card which will never be mailed? Are not these problems so hard to solve because my own mind is not made up yet in regard to your death? My intelligence does not accept the transformation of physical discontinuity into the permanent continuity of a nonphysical element escaping the obvious law, nor can it accept the inanity of accumulating incalculable treasures of thought and sensation, and thought-behind-thought and sensation-behind-sensation, to lose them all at once and forever in a fit of black nausea followed by infinite nothingness. Unquote.”",
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                        "text": "“One day, however, they had an experience that revealed just how fragile their life had become. Bella developed a cold, causing fluid to accumulate in her ears. An eardrum ruptured. And with that she became totally deaf. That was all it took to sever the thread between them. With her blindness and memory problems, the hearing loss made it impossible for Felix to achieve any kind of communication with her. He tried drawing out letters on the palm of her hand but she couldn’t make them out. Even the simplest matters—getting her dressed, for instance—became a nightmare of confusion for her. Without sensory grounding, she lost track of time of day. She grew severely confused, at times delusional and agitated. He couldn’t take care of her. He became exhausted from stress and lack of sleep. He didn’t know what to do, but there was a system for such situations. The people at the residence proposed transferring her to a skilled nursing unit—a nursing home floor. He couldn’t bear the thought of it. No, he said. She needed to stay at home with him. Before the issue was forced, they got a reprieve. Two and a half weeks into the ordeal, Bella’s right eardrum mended and, although the hearing in her left ear was lost permanently, the hearing in her right ear came back. “Our communication is more difficult,” Felix said. “But at least it is possible.”",
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