Goonhub
12-08-2016, 06:42 PM
A few months back when I was doing clinicals for a nursing assistant program, one of my duties was to feed breakfast to the residents who needed help. The typical breakfast had some scrambled eggs, a couple pieces of toast, a bit of oatmeal, and no less than three different kinds of drink.
One morning, I was assigned to someone who didn't have any teeth, which I'm sure you can imagine would make breakfast tricky. Of course, the nursing home had planned for this. Through sheer passive-aggressive accommodation, they decided to puree everything, including the toast, which ended up as a foamy, gelatinous, light-brown paste with bits of whole-grain speckled throughout. Imagine this bread soup, but slightly drier and with someone actually eating it (Please tell me you didn't eat that, even if you did).
Kinda says something that of all the gnarly shit I got to be a part of in those few weeks, the strained toast is the one thing that legit still kinda skeeves me out. Well done.
One morning, I was assigned to someone who didn't have any teeth, which I'm sure you can imagine would make breakfast tricky. Of course, the nursing home had planned for this. Through sheer passive-aggressive accommodation, they decided to puree everything, including the toast, which ended up as a foamy, gelatinous, light-brown paste with bits of whole-grain speckled throughout. Imagine this bread soup, but slightly drier and with someone actually eating it (Please tell me you didn't eat that, even if you did).
Kinda says something that of all the gnarly shit I got to be a part of in those few weeks, the strained toast is the one thing that legit still kinda skeeves me out. Well done.