Puzzle Description:

I had just arrived when a harpy appeared waving a diaper at me and asking " Are you wet or dry?" (See comment No. 1 for more information about this series.)

#1: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Aug 20, 2016

I decided to illustrate my stay in the Nursing Home From Hell after I broke my arm. Igor has graciously agreed to play my part. The bed was brown and was probably manufactured around 1900 with the mattress about the same age along with the pillows, which were more of a thin hard pad than a pillow.

I'm sorry, Norma. Hopefully, you have recovered well.

Thanks, Tom. It's been a few years now and now it's just a bad memory. Long enough so that I can smile about it.

Wow. I've heard of these types of nursing homes but never knew someone with first hand experience. Hope you never have to go there again Norma. :)

I'll find a way to croak first. And there is more to come.

Oh Norma, this brought back memories of when I had to visit my grandmother in one. I got to where I could no longer go. I'm thankful my grandmother was in a comma and did not know how awful I was. I think I would croak also.

How awful :(

I survived. :)

ugh

Over my 26 years as a paramedic, I encountered many nursing homes like this. None of us ever wanted to have to live in one and if we did, we hoped that we would be in a coma like Donna's grandmother. Great puzzle though

Thank you, Susan.

I especially like the harpy's overabundant compassion and sensitivity to human dignity.

It's hard to imagine such a horrible place. Yikes.
Good little puzzle.

It's hard to imagine such a horrible place. Yikes.
Good little puzzle.

Too bad this site isn't universally observed - this could be like the "60 Minutes" expose of bad nursing homes!

Thanks, everyone. You really wonder how they continue to exist. But I guess working in one isn't everyone's idea of an ideal occupation. I did have a few nice people, but they only worked part time, so didn't see much of them.

This is so different from the attention and care that Niki and Paytyn received at the hospital in Fredericton. Not to mention how they were to me. While she was in labour the nurses brought me sandwiches and muffins and like I mentioned before the one nurse felt so bad for me cause I was having a lack of caffeine headache(only decaf in the hospital) that she went to Tim Horton's and bought me a large double double dark roast. She wouldn't let me pay for it either. Great people at that hospital. :)

Unfortunately I wouldn't rate the hospital I was taken to any higher than the nursing home. I begged the paramedics to take me to another hospital because it had a bad rep. They wouln't, saying that they had to take me to the closest place. Had I know what was to transpire I would have had my neighbor take me to a better hospital. I was in the hospital for over 24 hours before they could find a quack - oops, make that orthopedic surgeon - to come and fix my arm. (More about that later.) A lot of doctors were severing their relationships with that hospital.

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