Things you learn

[firecat]

Tips for caring for someone with memory impairment:

Give them the pill,
tell them to put the pill in their mouth,
remind them not to chew the pill,

THEN give them the water glass.

Otherwise they drop the pill in the water glass.


It's kind of like programming...you have to specify every subroutine of the procedure, and then debug if you have unexpected results.

Comments

[firecat]

Yes. Your comments are so helpful.

I get the general idea of the commentary and the subroutines, and it makes emotional sense to me, because I work with animals, and also because I've been in the hospital coming out of general anesthesia, where I really can only process a few seconds of information at a time.