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I received an interesting visitor yesterday and an interesting request. Sometimes I rack my brain for something that I can write about that doesn't go against the privacy regulations that I'm required to follow. If I could tell stories about the incidents that happen here at the Home on a daily basis I would have more to write than I have time to write. I'm not breaking any rules to relay the following scenerios so here goes. On April 1, (April Fool's Day) I received a call from a gentleman that had been calling me for a number of days. Since I receive so many calls from sales people I often don't return calls from people I don't know. On April 1, the receptionist came to my door and said, "this man has called you multiple times and really needs to talk to you, will you talk to him"? I took the call and the man said that he had a friend who lives in London who is writing a novel and the setting is a nursing home in the 1950's and she needed to speak to someone about what a nursing home in the 50's in Pittsburgh would have been like. I said, "Is this an April Fool's joke"? He assured me that it wasn't. I asked him how she got the name of our nursing home and he said that she had gone on line and Googled nursing homes in Pittsburgh, and found that ours was the oldest. Yesterday the woman arrived from London, and came into visit with me. I answered her questions, showed her pictures of what the Home used to look like, gave her a short written history of the Home and took her on a tour of the part of the Home that was built in the 1950's that is still standing. She was very interesting. She is writing a detective novel and wanted some information about how a "Rest Home" would have operated in that time period. It was a great visit and she promised to send us a copy of her book when it's published. I also had a desparate call from a young woman saying that she had set up four classes to be held at her church over the next month to be taught by someone from the Pittsburgh chapter of the Alzheimer's Assoc. They had had their first class last week and then had received a call on Tues. evening saying that the educator was no longer available. The request was could I teach the class that was to be held tonight. There was no way that I could be ready for tonight, but I could be prepared by April 24th so I agreed to teach the class if she could arrange to have the other two classes taught first. So-o-o I have the opportunity to teach a class about communication barriers, the changes that take place during each of the three stages of Alzheimer's Disease and the definition of a challenging behavior and effective interventions. This subject is near and dear to my heart so I'm glad to have this opportunity.
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Posted by Jackie
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