New Era Nursing Home

The nursing home that I volunteer is undergoing an audit, so I mainly helped the nurses and managers with filing paperwork. It is also undergoing some construction to make more rooms for more residents so currently there are only about 30 residents. Whenever I volunteer I make sure to visit one resident who is the sweetest lady, I have been telling her about my classes since I was a freshman when Dr. Simmons had us do a service learning project in Gen Bio II. This lady had stroke nine years ago and is paralyzed from the waist down and left half of her body, but she does not let that stop her from venturing out of the nursing home. When I went in yesterday she wanted to go eat snow cones from an ice cream truck, but since it was raining we could not take her electric wheelchair outside. Until the audit, I think I will be busy with organizing the files of the nursing home, but I'd much rather spend time with the residents.