During a visit to my doctor, I asked him, "How do you determine whether or not an older person should be put in assisted living?"
"Well", he said, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the person and ask them to empty the bathtub."
"Oh, I understand", I said, "A normal person would use the bucket because it is bigger than the spoon or the teacup."
"No", he said, "A normal person would pull the plug. Do you want a bed near the window:"
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.A more advanced thing here than the in-home yearly visit where you are asked to draw a clock with hands on it to depict a certain time. Aetna wants me to come back to the in-home visits and has offered me money to do so. I refuse and tell them it is a test to see how close to the nursing home I am. I'm wondering how a millennial would pass that test.
DenoPenno
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June 9, 2023
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I better take that test. Yesterday I washed my face with bubblegum toothpaste instead of soap
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