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Ep 10: Lois' Story · Life's Just Getting Started

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  SPEAKER_02: Hey, this is Josh with Three Pillars.
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  SPEAKER_02: Welcome to Life's Just Getting Started, a Three Pillars podcast about all things three pillars.
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  SPEAKER_02: See you soon.
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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Life's Just Getting Started, a Three Pillars podcast about all things three pillars.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm Kelsey.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm Josh, and we are here with Lois from Riverside Lodge.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_02: Welcome.
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  SPEAKER_02: Welcome.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for being on, Lois.
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  SPEAKER_01: So our podcast is about stories and the wonderful people at Three Pillars.
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  SPEAKER_01: So lucky us you agreed to speak with us today.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you live at Riverside Lodge, assisted living currently.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_01: When did you come to Three Pillars?
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it was in March of uh this'll be the uh it'll be two complete years.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: In March.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so uh a a couple years.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wonderful.
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  SPEAKER_01: And where are you from?
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  SPEAKER_01: Or where did you, when you moved to Three Pillars, where had you been previously?
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  SPEAKER_00: For eight days in ICU.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's not fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where they didn't expect I would live.
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  SPEAKER_00: They had the doctors and nurses had given up on me.
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  SPEAKER_00: My brother flew home from Florida, and I was in ICU for eight days.
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  SPEAKER_01: You gave everyone a big scare.
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  SPEAKER_00: I did, yes, I did.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then you decided not today.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I guess the good Lord wasn't ready for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: You had work to do out here, Lois.
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  SPEAKER_01: So at that time you decided a little peace of mind maybe was a good move?
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  SPEAKER_00: I would live alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: And after what I went through, I was afraid to be alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it was my decision to give up my house, sell my house and all my belongings, and move to some work to assist in living.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Mark, the CEO, lives right across from my brother in Asherman.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the first time that I did a bunny walk, guess who I walked with?
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  SPEAKER_00: Mark.
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  SPEAKER_00: With Mark.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's good to have nice neighbors, huh?
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  SPEAKER_00: And the other day when we had the last bunny walk, then as we came towards the door, he was there, and I said, Hi, Mark, you know, and and I said, you know, I never got a picture.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: We were gonna get a picture of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, he's I have a big one, he said.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I will I had planned on giving it to your brother, but it's you want it, so we have it posted in the It's a poster, it's asking you shall receive logs.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_01: You want the picture?
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  SPEAKER_01: Did you frame it and matter?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it my sister-in-law just hung it up on the wall?
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh nice.
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  SPEAKER_00: And people have noticed it as they come in.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, people might start asking you for autographs because that was used as a promotion.
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  SPEAKER_01: You that you might as well, I mean, that was a supermodel photo of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_01: Do you agree?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I guess so.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a beautiful photo.
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  SPEAKER_01: We should put that one on our next uh billboard.
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  SPEAKER_00: There we go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, and and one of the workers, I think was it Kim, somebody brought me uh from a um class uh was it arrowhead, one one school that had the senior pictures in, and on the back of that there was this advertisement with my picture and and mark.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well I guess you're famous.
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  SPEAKER_01: Very famous seen in all sorts of publications.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, thanks for uh allowing us to use your beautiful photo.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm glad you got the big copy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think that's a good thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's fun.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's so fun.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, let's take it back.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where are you from, Lois?
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  SPEAKER_01: Before the ICU and before Three Pillars.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tell us about your life before.
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  SPEAKER_00: I lived with I I was born in the town of Wakanemak on a farm.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was born at home, and um I lived there with my I I was never I never married, and I lived with my parents on the farm and helped with farm work, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um in 1983 they sold the farm and I bought a house in town and then they lived with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I bought that in '83, and that but then my mother had to go to Shorehaven in '91.
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  SPEAKER_00: And my dad had to go there in ninety two or three.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_01: Good.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was nice and close to you in O'Connor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, that was very c very good.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh then I like I said, I bought my house in '83 and lived there alone after my dad would had to go to to uh Shorehaven.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh I enjoyed my house and I I paid cash money for it when I bought it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not a lot of people can say that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I really didn't start working at the hospital till 1968.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before that, I did private uh work for neighbors, relatives, you know, and um did cleaning and and uh laundry and cooked meals and and uh there was a couple of families where the mother died and then I went a couple times a week and did laundry and cooked meals for them and and uh did that till 1968.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I thought, hey, I gotta look out for myself because I was getting no benefits anywhere and I lived alone and I had to look out for my future, you know.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's when I quit all those jobs and uh uh started working at the hospital.
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  SPEAKER_00: I applied at the hospital and I'd really wanted to work in kitchen because I like to cook and make.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh but they were so short of house uh housekeeping, and because that was on my resume, uh they asked me would I work in housekeeping.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I worked in housekeeping, I would say about seven or eight years, and then they wanted needed someone to check surgery linen for stains and uh rips, and I also made all the packs for surgery.
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  SPEAKER_00: But then after about oh, maybe six, seven years, then they decided to go mostly disposable.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that job was eliminated.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I worked in one little room, it wasn't bigger than this room, and I worked there and I l I loved that job, you know, and uh felt really bad when I lost that job.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, then they offered me you're gonna laugh at this, the mail as a mail hurt, M-A-I-L.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that kind.
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  SPEAKER_00: I went, I made uh four interdepartmental mail runs every day and sorted all the incoming mail and stamped all the outgoing mail.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it was a busy job.
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  SPEAKER_00: But then when I retired in ninety-eight, I had the biggest retirement party I think anybody will ever had have because the whole hospital knew me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, was there any job you didn't do there?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I covered a few things.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I went from one little room like this to the whole hospital.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh first I thought I thought, I'm not gonna like this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I was really almost sick when I lost the uh linen job.
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  SPEAKER_00: The job you love so much.
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  SPEAKER_01: But turns out, interdepartmental mail run, do you got to meet everybody, see everybody?
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  SPEAKER_01: Was it on foot?
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had a cart.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: I had a cart.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you got your steps in all.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yes, I put on miles.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wore out a hip and then you walked hard.
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  SPEAKER_00: But my blood pressure was always very good.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_00: Good.
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  SPEAKER_02: So you said you used to like to bake.
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  SPEAKER_02: What's your favorite thing to bake?
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'm noted for my sugar cookies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: I he probably can't announce it, but is there a s a secret to your recipe?
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  SPEAKER_01: Or how you make it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, it's like the army sugar cookie.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_00: Oh.
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  SPEAKER_02: Is that super buttery?
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: I don't put any butter in it.
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  SPEAKER_02: No butter.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just oil and margin.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I I like Imperial.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was always my margin.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's your brand of choice?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's I had best luck with that.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: If you want.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you want to know how many cookies I baked, for many, many years after I was retired, I baked over 200 dozen every Christmas.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness.
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  SPEAKER_01: There were many happy friends of yours waiting for their lowest cookies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I still always had one person that I worked with at the hospital, and every year she bought 20 dozen.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my goodness.
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  SPEAKER_02: So you you cooked over 200 dozen with Imperial.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I I say that.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, there was some uh peak on fingers, I baked them with all butter, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you know, my sugar cookies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those everybody wanted them, you know.
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  SPEAKER_03: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh, but now my sister-in-law bakes them, and my ne one of my nieces bakes them too.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just I always say they aren't as thin as mine, but they're good.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_00: They're good.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_01: They they have time yet to get great, like you were maybe.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_02: Were you gonna say if Imperial wants to contact I was if anybody from Imperial is watching, Lois can be a brand ambassador for this.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_01: For your uh ambassador.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_00: That was always that was always my brand I bought.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_00: For every anything that I use, margarine.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_01: That might be the key toil.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_02: Well, two brand uh partnerships we're trying to secure for you.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_02: We'll see what we can do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh did you decorate them?
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  SPEAKER_02: Did you decorate them too then?
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_00: No, I just my on my sugar cookies I sprinkled red and green sugar on before I put them in them.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_00: I did not like frosted cookies.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_02: Got it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Straight.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_00: Even here when they have frosted cookies, I don't I like them plain.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Take or leave the frosting.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: And pecan fingers was another kind that I a lot of people ordered, and they're putty.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_00: They take a while.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_02: Those are the powdered ones, right?
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, might not have made those too.
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  SPEAKER_02: I love those.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_01: And you gotta roll their little logs.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: You make little logs.
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  unknown: Yeah.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_02: They are they are uh putsy, but they're really good.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah, I know a lot of people wanted them.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_01: Now, would you bake could somebody get a batch of cookies in you know June, or was this a holiday?
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_01: A holiday.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_01: Oh no, I baked them year round.
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  SPEAKER_00: If they're there, and there was one lady from church that always got uh got them for Easter.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh she wanted them for Easter.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, just changed the sprinkles.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I would color other colored uh orange and blue blue or something.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, good.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: Wonderful.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you also mentioned cooking when you were originally thinking for your first work at Pro Health.
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  SPEAKER_01: So any other famous recipes as far as I love to make soup.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_00: I always made my own homemade soup, never bought it.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_00: All tomato soup for casseroles and stuff I bought in a can, but my other soup I all made soup.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_00: And even here I like the soup.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: Every day a different soup, right?
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and like if I I don't like one of the other entrees, I have two dishes of soup.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_00: Because I can make a meal out of soup.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's enough in the evening.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's crackers or no crackers?
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_00: A few crackers.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_01: A little crumble.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_01: A crumble of them?
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_02: Did you have a favorite soup to make?
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_00: Probably chicken noodles.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_01: Classic and warm.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: Like this.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, now can we go back?
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: How many years did you spend at in your pro at Pro Health?
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_01: Did you say 30?
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_01: 30 years.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_01: 30 years.
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  SPEAKER_01: And does any particularly happy or funny memory stand out?
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_01: Like a story from your time your work there?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, I I really liked my little room.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: And then I was right next to um uh where they bring all the instruments and where they sterilize and do the surgery.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, because you had to use those as you were preparing like packets of the clean stuff?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I packaged it all up, you know.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_01: Was that a very sterile, like did you have to wear gloves and you're touching the sanitized stuff and it was very particular work?
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_00: No, I don't think they were quite as particular years ago as they are now.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_01: It makes sense.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm sure it was all fresh when it came to the city.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_01: And you were on quality control to make sure stains ready.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: And was that um did you have like did you start your day and think I'm gonna do f a hundred today?
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: Or did you have like quotas?
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_01: Or how did how how did your day go?
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_00: Well, it all depended upon how much linen surgery linen came in, you know.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: There were always a lot of towels, but I always had off on Wednesday because the hospital sent their laundry out, and that was from the weekend, and then there wasn't that much.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_00: And uh so I I always had to work on Saturdays.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_00: But I was usually off on Sundays.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_00: Well when I worked in housekeeping, there was many weekends and holidays that I had to work.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: But that that was life.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_00: I w you get used to that.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_01: So you in your linen world you had that midweek lull of Wednesdays.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_01: So what would your Wednesdays be filled with?
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: You had a day to yourself.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: Well, that all depended upon, you know, what what kind of work I had.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, your uh with your other work, your private duty?
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_00: Sugar cookies.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, baking, baking and cooking.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_00: That's fun.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_01: And um did you walk to work?
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_01: Did you work at the Pro Health right now?
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: And um I rode with different people, picked me up.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: There was somebody from Lebanon that worked there, one of the men, and sometimes I went with him.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: And from Ashapon, there was uh a guy that would pick me up.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then a dear friend of mine, Mary Kenzel.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_00: She still is a good friend.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_00: She comes to visit me here every Wednesday.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_01: Shout out to Mary.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, she's wonderful, and she always brings fruit or fresh tomatoes and uh canned pickles and you know.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: So that's nice.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: Because what was your job or were you at the Okonemwalk Pro Health at that time?
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_02: How nice.
• 16:40
  unknown: Okay.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_02: So Lois, uh what do you got going on this afternoon?
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: Not at nothing.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: Nothing?
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_00: Do you have family visiting today?
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I don't think just till noon or so.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_00: My nephew is my financial guy and he had a right check count.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, okay.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: Three pillars wanted to be paid.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_00: That time, huh?
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_00: And the pharmacy bill and any other bills from the hospital or whatever, doctors.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_01: Take care of business, huh?
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_01: And otherwise in your afternoons here, do you do book club or live music or what do you like?
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: I go to just about everything there is.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_02: Do you have a favorite?
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yes.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: Sparkle.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, uh we started it with that's a club and we have a trophy and everything.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: You do?
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_00: Every six weeks the tr the trophy travels.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: We just started a new six week again.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: Guess what?
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: I was high.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: I had the best score.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_00: Low, eh?
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: Congratulations.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_00: Congrats.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_00: You know how it goes.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: The one, the uh fellow that uh got the trophy last week as high for the six weeks had the least yesterday.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_01: It ends in flows, doesn't it?
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_01: Do you think Farkel's mostly luck, or is there a lot of skill?
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, no.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's luck.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's not a dice roll.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_01: Unless you do the magic shake or the do you have do you have do you do anything or you just roll with it and have fun?
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_01: Ooh, roll with it.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_00: See what I did then?
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we we each get a cup with six dice, and everybody has their own dice, so they're sterile and everything.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: And uh whatever, however they come up, you know.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_00: One week I was really high too, then I had 14,000, which was really good.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but then the next couple weeks I was bad, so I went way down.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: And there's eight or nine always that uh what fun.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: Does it get a little loud?
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_01: Are you guys boisterous?
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: We get loud, yes.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_00: They hear us all over the place.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: Cheering each other on, of course.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they always oh yes, everybody cheers for everybody.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody that's fun.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody tells them not to get it.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: And many times I'll say, now roll three of a kind, and guess what?
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_00: They do it.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: The power of uh your words.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_00: That's nice of you to wish it.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah, we all wish each other.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's so fun.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_01: Well, did you meet uh new people once you were here and joined the Farkel Club?
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: Or did you know it?
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I'll t I'll tell you the first night I was here, I came in the afternoon.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_00: Well, first I was for three weeks in rehab.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_00: But then when I moved to uh Riverside, then uh I I'm in 102, which is on the one s end of the on one side of the the kitchen, and uh but they said I could eat on I should eat at the other side.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: So they took me and guess what?
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: I I I didn't even know they were here and it was a couple, a husband and a wife, and they they had they were big, big farmers.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_00: They still are their family, their son and grandson, and uh I ate on a table with them and I've been eating with them ever since.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_00: Good people everywhere.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: But I've gotten to know a lot of the other people too.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_02: Good.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_02: Well, do you you said you've been here about two years?
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_02: Here is that right?
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_02: So do you have a favorite place on campus now that you've had a chance to check out?
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_02: Do you have a favorite part of campus when you're on the walks or Oh well we they just take us all over.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: And Mary takes me every day.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: We went yesterday, but then we didn't sit by the river because it was cool and damp.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: But she takes me down to the river by the Bark River, and then we sit there for a while and listen to the water and visit and talk, listen to the birds, and then we go all the way around the building to the highway, and then we go into the woods and sit and watch the fountains.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_00: And so that that's my Wednesdays.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: But pretty soon that'll come to an end.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_00: And it gets cold.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's pretty year-round, but not as comfortable as uh I know.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you that sounds like a lot of nice spots you like to visit.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yes.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: Good.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_00: Well, we don't like I spend a lot of time in the community room.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: That's where all the concerts and whatever.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_02: And all where do you guys play Farkel?
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_00: In the community room.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: You play it in there too?
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: But now I started playing Sheep's in, and that's upstairs in the mezzanine.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_02: How much does that cost you?
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_02: A nickel, a hand?
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: Oh no, they don't play for money.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_00: We don't play for money.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: There's the the trophy.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that was a farcle, we have a trophy.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_01: Do you play do you do bingo?
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, those prizes.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: Those are prizes in bingo, right?
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: And most of people take candy, but I'm not a big candy person.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: I always take something out of the variety pack, like a snack?
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, not a not a snack, like uh uh hand lotion, chapstick, clean's.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: There's some good prizes.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_00: Some dish towels, and and I got uh the three quilted uh what I used for a bed spread.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, no.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_00: Somebody donates them, and I don't know, people don't take them.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: So I take them.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: They're after the candy, and you're after the goods.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_01: I like it.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: Well, that's so fun.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: We have loved talking to you.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_01: Stories, some laughs, learning some secrets for our baking.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_03: That's right.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much for coming on.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for joining us on the Light's Just Getting Started podcast.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_01: That's our Three Pillars podcast about all things three pillars.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: I'm Kelsey.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_02: I'm Josh.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you so much, Lois.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_01: And we're gonna sign off.