senior travel issues

Trippin’

Written by Susan Noyes Anderson on . Posted in Funny Poems, Uncategorized

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senior travel issues

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Let’s take a trip! Sounds cool. Hurray!!
I really need some time away,
some time away from cares of home
to be me – free – and on the roam.
Can’t wait to gather up my stuff
and split. I’ll just include enough
of what it takes to have some fun.
It won’t take long; I’ll soon be done.

So here’s a quick list of the things
that every seasoned traveler brings:
Clothes and shoes and toiletries,
meds (I take 13 of these),
wipes and needles, sun hat, CPAP,
hot pack, cold pack, all the tech crap –
chargers, cords, and BP cuff,
electric eye warmer (?) Enough!

But not enough. There’s so much more:
a bed wedge and four pillows…four!
Specialized food for diet needs…
eye drops, glasses, masks (oh, geez),
blood sugar monitors and reader,
oxygen saturation meter,
finger sticks and finger cots,
glucose tabs and neti pots.

Journal (to ease rising tensions),
nebulizer and suspensions,
extra insulin and sensors,
sterilizing bowls and cleansers,
special pads for special places,
special creams for dried-up faces,
lozenges and extra tissues…
Man, I’m trippin’!   (travel issues)

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Susan Noyes Anderson

Susan Noyes Anderson is the author of At the End of Your Rope, There’s Hope, Deseret Book, ©1997; Awaken Your Spiritual Power: The Fairy Godmother Isn’t Coming!, Karisma Press, ©1999; and His Children (poetry only, photos are by Anita Schiller), Vantage Point Press, ©2003.

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