catsaway in PurdATORy : My Year of Living Dementedly

''Fu ñëp di say ku sayul yaa dof '': 

Where everyone is in convulsive fits of madness, s/he who remains calm, it is s/he who is the crazy person.

Là où tout le monde est agité de convulsions démentielles, celui qui demeure calme, c'est celui-là le fou.

     - a Senegalese proverb, translated, rather literally, from the Wolof original.

To Mark (usage of the verb “To Celebrate” would be utterly misleading) my approaching One Year “Anniversary” (again, not quite the right designation) of staying alive and staying sane in a Residential Care Facility*, I am posting NOW (however chronologically incorrect: begun in advance of the true date and posted months afterwards), my New Year's Resolution. 

I would otherwise have been obliged to look through a disorderly assortment of my documents and other source materials in order to ascertain the exact date I was:

exiled from my home;

exiled from my home;

made to bid farewell to Taxi Muus (my most faithful furry companion of 17years);

made to bid farewell to Taxi Muus (my most faithful furry companion of 17years);

and permitted to displace only the most necessary personal belongings to my new so-called home, my first Residential Care Facility) for the purpose of making my New Year’s Resolution.

I hereby do Solemnly Declare that:

Should I survive this épreuve (Actually ---  I am struggling to find the most appropriate and evocative WORD with which to label this “______” : this “Divine Punishment”; this “senseless suffering”; this “quest”; this “exercise in character-building”; this “threat” to my return to anything that resembles that which I will recognize as my life)...

                                            

Should I escape PurdATORy**:

                                                         

I will tell my Truth and Nothing but This True Story of 

                                                                
Being Me in the wrong place for a long time…

_______
*

Vancouver Coastal Health - Residential Care: We provide publicly-subsidized residential care through our home and community[A1]  care services. idential care is provided to people who have complex care needs, can no longer remain safely in their own home, and require 24-hour nursing care in a supervised and secure environment. Formerly known as Nursing Homes.

**
The Purdy Residence is situated in the Purdy Pavilion on the beautiful campus of UBC next to the UBC Hospital. The 200 extended care residents live on the first, seco nd, third and fourth floors. We are operated by Vancouver Coastal Health, licensed under the Community Care Facilities Act and accredited by the Canadian Hospital Association. This location offers both residents and visitors a number of amenities unique to its setting, including a wealth of volunteers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) student population.

PurdATORy.... to me