Tomorrow I am going out, I am volunteering to help on an old persons day trip.
Many may groan at the prospective, not willing to sacrifice their time off and use it for the benefit of others, particularly an old person who are so sadly written off by society and perceived as having nothing more to offer our society except than to be a burden.
The lady who I have been assigned to push in her wheelchair is great fun to be and I am really looking forward to spending the day with her however, it's nothing as much she is looking forward to going out. She's housebound and spends most of her day looking at the same 4 walls so going out for a day something to be greatly looked forward to with great anticipation.
Her carer popped by tonight and checked that she was still OK to go out. Her answer was obvious without her even speaking and was to found in the wheelchair sitting in the hallway all set up, the clothes carefully laid out and the coat sitting ready for it's wearer to put it on in the morning.
She can not wait for the morning, like a child waiting for Christmas she can not wait to go out.
And please, if you have the opportunity to carry out voluntary work, take it you will find it greatly rewarding and don't reject and write off our old people. Treasure is often found in old vessels.
Many may groan at the prospective, not willing to sacrifice their time off and use it for the benefit of others, particularly an old person who are so sadly written off by society and perceived as having nothing more to offer our society except than to be a burden.
The lady who I have been assigned to push in her wheelchair is great fun to be and I am really looking forward to spending the day with her however, it's nothing as much she is looking forward to going out. She's housebound and spends most of her day looking at the same 4 walls so going out for a day something to be greatly looked forward to with great anticipation.
Her carer popped by tonight and checked that she was still OK to go out. Her answer was obvious without her even speaking and was to found in the wheelchair sitting in the hallway all set up, the clothes carefully laid out and the coat sitting ready for it's wearer to put it on in the morning.
She can not wait for the morning, like a child waiting for Christmas she can not wait to go out.
And please, if you have the opportunity to carry out voluntary work, take it you will find it greatly rewarding and don't reject and write off our old people. Treasure is often found in old vessels.
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