Add a little color!

While working in the nursing home you quickly learn there are three things that you do not interfere with: Bingo!, getting your hair fixed or getting your nails painted! Period! No exceptions. However, occasionally there are the few and far between that would much rather come to therapy as opposed to going to some fun filled activity of the day. One such person was Annie. She said it was much more entertaining in the therapy gym than in some room playing bingo with a bunch of old people. And by entertaining she didn't necessarily mean she was all excited about doing therapy. She was more interested in what new coming and going was circulating in the therapy gym. What new person was in therapy. She always wanted to know if they were older than her and most proud to find out that she was still the oldest but definitely didn't look it. Although sometimes you did have to cut a deal with her if it was the day for her to get her nails done. Even at 98 you still gotta look good. Never know who you will run into. Not that she was looking for anyone. All those men were told old.


I the previous day I had come to work with my nails painted some spring salmon/melon color. She had asked if I would bring it and paint her nails the following day. Deal made. She had told me it wasn't her usual color of browns and neutrals but you only live once so might as well add a little color. However, on the next day I was surprised when she asked me to remove it. We had both been so excited about the new color and agreed it looked splendid on her. She quickly explained that she had initially like the color and thought it looked really nice on me. But she had changed her mind after her son had been in and didn't really like the color on her. I tried for a  short time to convince her to just leave it for another day or two and if she still didn't want to wear it I would remove it for her. I suppose she finally got tired of hearing me whine about it and her response was priceless.
"Well, I really think it looks good on you but.....I think it makes me look like an old hooker."
Nail polish removed.


Be Inspired....add a little color to you life. But make sure it doesn't make you look like an old hooker.






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