Met some amazing folks at LNA Day (that’s Licensed Nursing Assistants) on the State House lawn in Concord. It was a celebration of dedicated people working hard to help the sick and the elderly. Here’s Dan Estee and Elizabeth Thistle of Dover Rehab, and me in the middle. Elizabeth was among the nominees for special awards and Dan nominated her.
Gov. John Lynch gave some heartfelt opening remarks. He was delayed a few minutes by fourth-graders. All New Hampshire fourth-graders study state history and many of them visit the State House on field trips. He said when he asks fourth-graders who among them wants to be governor, they all raise their hands. When he asks seventh-graders, none do. The puzzlement is what happens to political enthusiasm and ambition between fourth and seventh grade. My guess: puberty.
The State House grounds looked glorious. All dressed up for spring.
One award-winning LNA told me about the 102-year-old woman who chose “The Bridges of Madison County” as a book she’d like to have read to her, because she’d heard it was spicy. The LNA obliged. If you know the book, you know there’s some hanky panky that goes on between a traveling photographer and a married woman. After a reading session that included a particularly spicy passage, the LNA noticed that the woman had signed her name differently on a sign-out sheet. “What’s this?” the LNA said. “It’s my maiden name,” the woman said. “Hearing that story made me feel like a girl again.”
Congratulations to all the LNAs for the important work they do.
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