This particular story began with an offhand comment made by a friend of mine, who is a nurse. She said I wouldn't believe how much money the nursing homes in Eureka are offering to pay RNs working certain shifts. It's a difficult story. It's not a happy story. At one point, Arno told me he wasn't sure he liked asking tough questions and getting some hostile answers.
Most people never have an occasion to visit a nursing home.
It's always a shock for those of us on the outside to enter one, even the better ones. In the mid-1970s I worked for the old county hospital where General Hospital is now located. Adjacent to the hospital was the county-operated nursing home which I visited several times a week, delivering paperwork. At first I avoided those delivery chores. I was uncomfortable being confronted by the woman in the wheelchair who always grabbed my arm and wanted me to pull her around the halls for a little ride.