Lessons In Kindness From My Volunteer Work at a Hospital
I spent last summer volunteering at a hospital. It was a gift to meet so many amazing people and I’d like to share one of these moments. One day, I was paged up to a room where an elderly woman was staying. Usually I helped with discharging patients, but she wasn’t ready to leave. Instead, she wanted to go to the gift shop. I got a wheelchair, helped her into it, and we headed down to the lobby. When we got there, it wasn’t open yet. It was only a 30 minute wait so we went over to the waiting area and I read her bits and pieces of the newspaper aloud. After 30 minutes, we went to the gift shop. As I pushed her around, I could see the joy in her face as she looked at everything, happy to be out of her room. She chose some window decorations, ... Read Full Story >>
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- Nov 14, 2016
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