Molly Eiderdown’S Journal: Memoirs at the Serenity Nursing Home

By Elaine B. Berrier

From the pages of Molly Eiderdowns Journal: Memoirs at the Serenity Nursing Home springs the thoughts, feelings, and observations of a woman who writes a new chapter in her own life. At seventy-nine, she enters a nursing home under duress following a heart attack. Forced into this late-life move by her children, who felt concerned about her health and her ability to live on her own, Molly Eiderdown decides to keep a journal to pass the time. She notes on the first page, It is so boring here that I have just decided to write. I have to write BIG so I can read it because my eyes arent so good, but who cares if I fill up my whole under the bed with notebooks. Theyll never find them anyway. No one ever even dusts under there Ill bet.
Elaine B. Berriers Molly Eiderdowns Journal rests upon the authors twenty-seven years of experience working with elders as a nurse in long-term care facilities. This roots the novel in the realities of people who live in nursing homes.
Presenting a series of journal entries, Molly Eiderdowns Journal: Memoirs at the Serenity Nursing Home depicts a wise and spirited woman who learns and grows at a time in her life she had thought was too late for such change. If you find yourself drawn to stories of people who triumph over challenges, then Molly Eiderdowns Journal will present you with a new friend and a source of inspiration.
Elaine B. Berrier earned a bachelors degree in nursing from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and worked with elders for twenty-seven years in long-term care facilities and ten years as a parish nurse. She and her husband live in Massachusetts. She is very involved with her church, having facilitated discussions using her book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Mar 18, 2011
• ISBN: 9781462000319

Elaine B. Berrier

Elaine B. Berrier earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and worked with elders for twenty-seven years in long-term care facilities and ten years as a parish nurse. She and her husband live in Massachusetts. She is very involved with her church, having facilitated discussions using her book.

Book preview

Chapter 1

WHEN I CAME HOME from the hospital after my heart attack, Susan (my oldest daughter) picked up my medication. We got home and she wrote down (in big letters for me to see) which pill to take at what time. It was all very confusing. I had to take 3 pills when I woke up. At dinner, I had to take 2 more. At bedtime, another one and I could not just pick any bottle and take any 3 pills or 2 pills. I had to get them right. Susan wrote in big letters on a piece of paper their names and then put a rubber band around each to hold it. Anyway, Susan wrote this all down then watched me while I tried to follow what she wrote. I tried! I really did, but I just became more confused and frustrated and, finally I told her I wasn’t takin’ any pills. Didn’t need them before and I got along all right up until now. Don’t want to live forever