Thursday, September 28, 2000
Giving and Taking - To MFS
A new robe would be wonderful. She has a heavy duty "new" one for Prescott that MPS gave her a couple of years ago but it's too heavy for Mesa, you're right. Her favorite ones have zippers up the front. As far as colors and patterns are concerned, I'll leave that up to you. She's pretty flexible except I don't think she'd appreciate a masculine plaid or a Pokemon print.
I never thought about it before but it has to be a uniquely humiliating experience, to have your bodily functions looked after by someone who is silent, dressed in white or some other inorganic pastel color and then have them say absolutely nothing to you or to the visitors while they are attending to you; in fact, I'm wondering about the dignity of having your diapers changed in front of visitors. I know nurses are terribly overworked but, you know what, that's no excuse for a compassionate attitude toward ministering to someone who can't do for themselves what they would normally do in private.
I never thought about it before but it has to be a uniquely humiliating experience, to have your bodily functions looked after by someone who is silent, dressed in white or some other inorganic pastel color and then have them say absolutely nothing to you or to the visitors while they are attending to you; in fact, I'm wondering about the dignity of having your diapers changed in front of visitors. I know nurses are terribly overworked but, you know what, that's no excuse for a compassionate attitude toward ministering to someone who can't do for themselves what they would normally do in private.
