29 May 2016
Hi everyone!
I hope you are all having a nice Memorial Day weekend. I agree with Ben, that June has come way too fast! We shouldn’t be almost half way through this year already! Speaking of Ben…I sure wish we could have heard you speak in your Sacrament meeting today. Did you have enough time to give the message you wanted to? If you have the talk written out, I’d love to have a copy of it…if you don’t mind.
I really enjoyed seeing pictures of downtown Indianapolis. It is pretty! And thank you for sharing your visit with the Farmers. I’ll bet they were so pleased to see you. I think Sariah was born after they move to Eastlake Ward, and even her older brothers wouldn’t likely remember us. It makes me happy that they have an Elmwood Lane Ward scrapbook! And neat picture of Mario Andretti! Very cool! And Joseph, please keep us informed about how your soccer games are going!
I need to explain the attachment I have included. My brother, John, is working part time as a caregiver at a nursing home. He and Annie are trying to get out of debt. Any how, one of the older gentlemen he takes care of is Ned Hogan. John told me about him, I googled him, and this is what I found. John said that when some of the young aids get impatient with Ned, John reminds them that there was a time when if Ned snapped his fingers, 5000 men jumped! John says Ned’s mind is clear, but he is suffering with Parkinson’s disease, and is really going downhill physically.
I’m so glad that he is having this experience. Over the years as a nurse, I have often found myself needing to imagine what a dirty, smelly, angry, abusive patient might have been like at some other point in their life. It even helped to imagine them as a baby, and think of how much their mother loved them. It’s easy to judge each other, isn’t it?
I think you all might be aware, but the mother of a friend of Autumn’s passed away last week, and Autumn traveled to Coeur d’Alene for the funeral. Aimee drove up to spend a day with her. I know it meant a lot to Autumn. Thank you, Aimee dear, for being you!
Work is really busy for me, and it looks like it will be that way most of the summer. Covering for others who are gone, and who have been nice about covering for me when I was gone. One will have knee surgery and be out for almost 6 weeks. The preparations for our PFAC (Patient Family Advisory Council) are going well; we’ll have our first (dinner) meeting on June 16th. I’m nervous, but excited too. It’s something I’ve been working toward for quite a while.
Dad is busy, traveling some. He just got home from Coeur d’Alene and Jackson Hole. And next week he goes to Boise and then Sacramento. Then after that he shouldn’t have too much traveling until September; that sounds good to us both!
I think that summer is almost here! Bradley is in Apple Valley, most of the kids are out of school, and we are looking forward to seeing you all at various times over the summer. We love and miss you all. We pray for you, each one; we think of you and talk of you. I hope we hear from some of you this week.
Love, Mom/Johanna/Nana
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