The Mansion is asking for help in supporting their locked-in residents, who are not permitted to see their families, have visitors, go on walks or outings: we have a simple, four-item Amazon Mansion Wish List, a need for masks, a request for the Army Of Good to adopt individual residents and send them cards and letters.
The residents have been confined to the building for several weeks now, and their “quarantine” will last at least a month longer. This is very tough on them. They feel completely cut off from the world around them.
The four items on the wish list are for activities and art supplies: Satin ribbons for $9.98; Pom Poms for art and craft projects for $4.99; speakers for a desktop computer, $12.80, and an Ipad case for $17.99.
The other requests seek only your time and compassion. And that is worth everything.
At the Mansion’s request, we are re-activating our letter and card program. We’re asking that during the virus outbreak, and while the residents are confined to the Mansion, that we each adopt a resident.
You can send e-mails to ([email protected]), write letters or send pictures of your animals or any other subject that is bright and interesting. Please pick one resident. Mansion aides say this is one of the best things we can do for the residents now, they are lonely and stir-crazy and need to hear from the outside world.
The address is The Mansion, 11 S. Union Avenue, Cambridge, N.Y., 12816.
The resident names are Ellen, Matt, Gerry, Sylvie, Joanne, Madeline, Brother Peter, Helen, Georgianna, Georgiann, Barbara, Alanna, Linda, Nancy, Annette, Peggie, Becky, Jean, Bert (Roberta), Tim, Ben, John, Jim, Claudia, and Ruth.
In addition, we could use some help in getting surgical masks for the aides. I’ve found a supplier and ordered 200 masks but they won’t be coming for several weeks. If any of you know how to make masks, please help.
The Mansion is not a medical facility, there are no surgical procedures there, the masks are a guard against infection when people are cloistered – please feel free to make some and send them.
These are not “front line” doctors and nurses tending to patients in hospitals with the coronavirus. They are aides in an assisted care facility who wear the masks to help ward off different kinds of infection. They are asking for them, so I believe we should provide them if we can.
I’ve purchased enough to last a month or so, once they arrive.
The masks should be 100 percent cotton. For more information on making them, check the many how-to-videos on YouTube and thanks.
I’ll continue the special meals program starting today with cupcakes, pies, and muffins from Jean’s Place. Next week, Chinese food or pizza.
Thank you.
? Why can’t they go outside. “Cambridge is a town in Washington County, New York, United States. It is part of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town population was 2,152 at the 2000 census. The town of Cambridge contains part of a village, also called Cambridge. They can most certainly go outside and not be concerned. This is over reaction. If they are healthy they can go outside. The lockdown is not a shelter inside your house military order.
Melissa, I’m not a doctor or a health care professional, I just don’t know enough to land where you have landed. I am staying inside because the virus is believed to start spreading rapidly all over the country, as it has been doing for weeks, and I am being told that if I stay inside, I will help to slow or stop its progress in a small way..good enough for me, at this point, I will do what I’m asked to do, and not dismiss the pleas of trained professionals. I am not a trained professional. The Mansion residents are the most vulnerable to this disease, most of the people who die are 70 and over and have underlying medical conditions. That describes just about every Mansion resident..I think they can sit on the porch if they want, but they need to stay away from anything that might carry the virus..So I’m staying away…If this makes them uneasy for a month or so and saves a life or two, it’s okay by me..Most of the residents are not healthy, that[s why they are in assisted care…
This window visiting here is being called “Face Time”. LOL
I want to share a simple poem for The Mansion residents, or anyone who needs comfort during this unsettling time:
HOPE by Langston Hughes
Sometimes when I’m lonely,
Don’t know why,
Keep thinkin’ I won’t be lonely
By and by.