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When you live in a nursing home, there are so many contrasts. One part of one day can be simply awful, and then the afternoon can be stellar. Maybe nursing homes are just a microcosm of what happens in society each day. Maybe I should remember that the next time my world (inside the nursing home) turns topsy-turvy .

This morning I had a lot of trepidation after yesterday's "morning from hell".

But it seemed like the planets were aligned, or God was smiling because things went better.

A different night shift nurse actually brought my thyroid pill in at 5 AM.

Then, she came in much earlier to get me going for the day.

I was up before 6:45 am. and in the bathroom.

I headed to the shower around 7 AM. Unfortunately, I had to be weighed which is part of my Monday morning.

Two aides gave me my shower which saved some time.

Then, they took me to my room where I was dressed and readied for the day.

I was asked if I wanted to eat breakfast in the dining room and I said I would. When I got there, they were not very many residents left.

There was an aide available to feed me my breakfast. Even though I could tell my breakfast had been sitting for a while, I ate it because it got to me in a timely fashion.

As I said, with cooperation, things can turn around for the better, or definitely for the worse, in a nursing home.