It is called a Rehab and Nursing  facility…It is really an exercise in controlled chaos. I have been here five days and I think chaos is winning. Of more than 55.8 million elderly adults in the U.S. (65 or older), 1.3 million live in nursing homes, representing 2.3% of the elderly population. An additional 818,800 elderly Americans reside in assisted living facilities.Sep 13, 2023. (A Place for Mom)

The facility I am at serves two segments of this particular population, those needing extensive care and those like me who are here to rehab and get back to as close as they were before we came into this place and I am blessed to be in the second group. There is another group that are as close as you can come to… Earthly Angels, which reminds me of that Alabama classic, “Angels Among Us.”

“Oh, I believe there are angels among us

Sent down to us from somewhere up above

They come to you and me in our darkest hours

To show us how to live, to teach us how to give

To guide us with the light of love”

When you lose the ability to do the very basics that allow you to take care of yourself, unless you have been there it is hard to understand the effect it has when you realize you are no longer in charge of the simplest things of life that you take for granted every day. In my short time here in rehab I have discovered that I have been blessed by their presence. I have been among the angels these last five days…  “They come to you and me in our darkest hours”. They are the light in the darkness.

Kurt