At The Miriam

(Photo of Miriam Hospital courtesy of Brown.edu)

Hospitals are not the place you want to spend your day,

Even if it's raining and the sky is dark and gray,

Even when the doctor's skilled and all the staff is kind,

Somewhere else you'd rather be would not be hard to find.

That's if you're the patient who is having surgery...

When you love that person, there is no place else to be.

So, if I should miss a rhyme, I hope you'll understand

Sometimes things do not turn out exactly as we planned.

'though I hope to get around to posting 30 rhymes,

Be aware - you may observe a gap or two, at times.

And, if you are sitting in a hospital somewhere,

You have all my sympathy.  I've offered up a prayer.

RIHCA Volunteer of the Year - My Dad: Peter S. Corr, Jr.

He was younger than I am now in this picture.  I hope to age as gracefully.

Going to a luncheon in Rhode Island for my dad -

State where he was born and bred and brought up as a lad.

Navy men, it seems to me, no matter where they roam

Always have a special place they think of as their home.

For my dad, Rhode Island is that place - retired there.

Now the state will honor him for his outstanding care;

Volunteer of this past year...  He's busier than me.

Works as hard as ever, yet he's doing it for free.

Nursing homes and radio for people who are blind,

V.A. driver, Miriam, whatever he can find...

Altar boy in times of need and - though his legs are bad -

I don't think that I could ever keep up with my dad.

We are very proud of him - and of his patient wife;

View him as a model for a fine, up-standing life.

Therefore, as fair warning to Rhode Island, let me say

Kids from Massachusetts may try stealing them away.