HW 28

For Elizabeth,
The part I liked best from your post was: "I could have been sledding, building a snowman, or going for a walk in the snow. I thought about what she could have been doing at that moment. She could have been reading her newspaper...oh wait but that wasn't delivered due to the snow. Well she could have been watching the news...oh wait, she did that already today. Well she could go through old items in the storage room; oh wait, that's downstairs." By comparing the endless possibilities of things you could do, to the options that she had really was very powerful to me. It was powerful because it shows the drastic difference and made me think that people probably get very sad with a lack of activities as they get older and it gets harder to move around.

For Chris,
I thought the best part of your post was: "It could probably be the worse place that anyone would want to visit and have to see someone they love. A nursing home reminds me of a hospital but a couple times worse because when people go to the hospital the idea is people in the hospital get better. When people go to nursing homes the idea is that they have some kind of sickness where they can’t take care of themselves and usually they are elderly so they are close to death anyway." I think this was the best part because it brought up the point of hope and you have hope that people will get out of the hospital and go home, but at a nursing home this is where they're going to stay. Even though people die in hospitals you see a hospital as a place where people are treated and can leave. Opposed to a nursing home which is the place they are at waiting to die at. There's no getting better and leaving this place.

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