Notes from Youville
Notes from Youville: When Something Bad Becomes Good, Becomes Very Good
Bob Short, director of mission and pastoral care at Youville Assisted Living, shares the story of how the October storm resulted in one woman trading isolation and the burdens of daily life, to live the remainder of her life in a safe and caring environme
Apart from the crystalline beauty of a first snow, the surprising October storm brought upheaval to large swaths of the Northeast, more even than the formidable hurricane Irene did on her visit several months earlier. As these thoughts were being put to paper, the unrelenting, muffled growls of chain saws still rumbled in the near distance and, of more concern, many thousands of households from New Jersey to Maine had neither the heat to warm themselves nor lighting to read these words. This is the story of an elderly woman in Lexington, a visiting nurse and the staff and residents of Youville Place Assisted Living who came into her life (it seems fair to say, changed her life) when the aftermath of that late October storm made it clear…
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