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To: grania

That’s good. I think I have most of the pictures here.


22 posted on 07/22/2013 11:31:22 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

My dad celebrated his 90th B’day in a nursing home after he had a massive stroke confining him to a wheel chair. His hearing was compromised by hearing aids.

We got attendees lined up and the nursing home got a room where we gathered everyone before hand and had it decorated by my sister and brother. When he was brought in to the party room, everyone was already sat down and not milling around so we could wheel him to a table at the end of the room as the guest of honor. Then my brother, sister and I took turns playing party MC. His part of the gathering was about 45 minutes. We had a slide projector and showed family picutres, cut the cake and gave him some cards and he had a nice party and went back to his room with nurses assistance to get him back in bed.

Those gathered for the party continued to visit and a few grandkids went to his room for a picture or two.

We had done a similar but smaller gathering for the great-aunt at 100 but she was mostly blind and we kept it even more brief.


59 posted on 07/22/2013 1:47:20 PM PDT by KC Burke (Officially since Memorial Day they are the Gimmie-crat Party.)
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