As with our ER and hospital here in the Kern River Valley, I can find nothing but praise for the people at Skilled Nursing Facilities that within two months restored me to the point I could return home. There were so many “Attending Angels” like those of Hoffmann Hospice, all the nurses and aides at SNF that treated me day and night, to these I can only tender a hearty “Thank You!” though you all deserve so much more than that as do those like the friends that visited and so many praying for me together with those that gave so much of themselves and their time and helped me physically to be here in my small cottage in Bodfish writing once more.

Though often nursing homes and places like SNF are “a place where hope goes to die,” places where some people are “warehoused to die,” some of them living in a private hell like an active mind but the body unable to respond, here in our Valley we have personnel and facilities of which we can boast to the world we are most fortunate to have the hospital and the various medical services, staff that genuinely cares about people most living elsewhere would justly envy.

Again, my thanks to those responsible for my care, to those for whom their position is not simply a “job” extend their love as attending angels to others like me. Samuel Heath

Bodfish