The Bethlen Home Messenger, 1993-1994 (1-3. szám)
1994-03-01 / 2. szám
Jfrom tlje oî ï\\t JBiettctan by Edith Kovács THANK YOU! My husband and I appreciated the presents, cards, telephone calls, goodies, beautiful flowers, treats and parties on our birthdays. When the winter is barely over, we will start hosting the usual busy schedule of meetings in 1994. During the Resident Council meetings we discuss these occasions. In the early spring we will dedicate about seven new pine trees to the memory of loved ones. Families are planning to visit for this occasion while the Calvin Synod is meeting. Our birthday resolution is that next year we start to count our years backwards. Why not? With God’s help we don’t feel older... just better! Thanks for everyone of you for your love and friendship in the service of our elderly. God be with all of us! Our Evergreen Pine Memorial Fund is gaining popularity. There can’t be a nicer remembrance to the loved ones as an evergreen beautiful pine tree costing fifty dollars only. Generations to come will be blessed by them. We plan to replace all the old pines eventually on both sides of the road leading to the Bethlen Home. Edith Kovács The Dietician of the Bethlen Home ... Also we would like to express our sincere gratitude toward our employees who made and make all the efforts to show up at work against the bad weather conditions. We are so proud of our conscientious workforce! One of our residents would like to have a small typewriter, manual or electric, to use instead of his deteriorated, unreadable handwriting. I would like to buy a wood, old fashioned playpen and wooden high babychairconvertibletoalowtableand seat. If broken, I can fix it! No wonder that the Bethlen Home rates high in patient care in Pennsylvania! We are enforcing the parking prohibition at the back of our buildings. Because of non permitted parked cars the ambulances had difficulties to pick up and return patients. They had to carry residents far from the entrances in slippery weather and heavy snowfall. In this way, we expose our sick residents to extreme colds. There are signs on doors requesting families, guests, visitors, etc. to not park at the back. It is a tow away zone! Every first Thursday of the month at 3:00 p.m., we meet in the Dining Room with the residents. Usually we manage to have a small-party-atmosphere, where everybody can voice his or her opinion, come with suggestions, ask questions and complain, speak of the heart. Answers, solutions, changes are communicated back to the Resident Council when obtained from the various departments involved. Every first Thursday of the month at 4:00 p.m. is the Cottage Residents’ Tea Party. The bad weather in February made it impossible to get together, but in March and the following months we will meet again! We are slowly redecorating our Dining Room. The Activity Department provides us with perpetual seasonal decorations there. Thanks Sherry! The residents and their families, also our employees, are seriously requested not to paste, glue or tape decorations, cards, pictures, etc. on the doors and walls anywhere in the building. It was too late when we noticed that Christmas scenes were put up these ways. The result is very sad. Paint came off in spots, somewhere the tapes left on causing time consuming fingernail breaking jobs to our employees. The decorations are temporary, the damages are permanent. SPICES Many of our readers requested more articles about spices, like I wrote a few years ago. I stopped that series expecting little interest, but now let’s start again researching all the flavor giving ingredients of our foods. There are also more triggers for this new series, as you will see. Just lately in the Tufts University Diet and Nutrition Letter I read interesting information about spicy foods based upon the latest researches. This informative scientific magazine states that spicy, “hot” foods do not cause or aggravate ulcers. According to the latest findings stomach ulcers are caused by bacteria, and physicians treat this condition with antibiotics.
