respite eughhhhh

if anyone you know or you are single, living alone and require a hospital stay,listen very carefully because you will likely go to respite at a location where a nurse ot rpn can keep an eye on you. when i was ready to leave cambridge hospital the social worker came to me with a list of locations to go to and recover.

my close friend and i went to the recommended place in blair and when we arrived we found a old victorian house on blair rd. which was not made for wheelchairs and certainly not disabiled and what we found was a facility full of mental and drug addicted young men. the operator showed us around, the bathroom wasn't set up as i couldn't even get though the door. he informed us that they call you to the diningroom for meals at one large diningroom table and the room i would stay in was no bigger than a phone booth.

i started to shake and my friend said "don't say anything now" and as we started to leave 3 young men were smoking a joint while another was cllecting dead cigarettes for another tenant. when we got to the van i started to weep and saud "please don't let them send me here" i also said "if i have to come here i would rather stay on a street corner in a cardboard box".

on a whim we stopped at avonlea around the corner from the hospital and and found new management had taken over and had only 13 residence out of 34 units, the adminitrator and staff were incredible and i thought i was in heaven. i truly enjoyed my 11 month stay and the day i left for my new apartment it was very tearful goodbye for all of us.

all i'm saying is check things out for yourself and don't let anyone send you anywhere till you check it out yourself.

see you soon