Doing the right thing.

I marvel. At my friends. Julie and Rick. A very loving couple. For five years, they cared for Julie’s Alzheimer-riddled father Ron. In their home. But it was getting to be too much. They finally placed Ron in a nursing home. It didn’t work. So they tried another nursing home. That didn’t work either. Now they have Ron back with them. Because they care much more and better than the professional care-givers.  Julie and Rick are disappointed.  In the system of nursing home care. It’s terribly inadequate. Certainly unfair to Ron. So Ron is back home again. For how long, nobody knows. Julie and Rick are taking it all one day at a time.  Pledged. To do what’s right and best for Ron. –Jim Broede