It has long been my belief that collectively you folks know everything

Apropos of a slightly surreal conversation with Cat just now, it occurs to me that the pre-chloroform method of giving a patient liquor with or without laudanum to make a proceedure more bearable seem as if it couldn't possibly actually work.

( cut for the comfort of avoiders of This Sort Of Thing. Which is a non-explicit discussion of pain in surgery. )

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Wanted: Patient Mac User in or near Trail, BC.

So, my Mom just moved into an Assisted Living complex. This is, on the whole, a Good Thing.

One of the things that is being hardest for her right now, though, is that she's had to downsize pretty radically, and one of the biggest losses is that she isn't going to be able to collect books and cds and dvds so much anymore.

So I'm thinking of getting her an iPad, and maybe a Netflix account. Books, music, movies ... and the ability to use Facetime to talk to me and my family. I talked to the worker, I can get her wifi very affordably, all that stuff is easy.

The only catch is this: my mother is almost completely computer illiterate, and while iPads are ridiculously intuitive, she also has some cognitive and memory issues. So she's going to need to be walked through how to do stuff, and she's going to need a set of printed out instructions that she can go back to if she forgets how to do something.

The staff seem like pretty awesome people, but they don't seem to be super tech-literate. The assisted living workers would be happy to help her when she gets stuck, if they have those written instructions to refer to, but they can't actually teach her.

So I am seeking, as above, a person in the West Kootenays who likes a) iPads, b) slightly vague old ladies c) teaching, d) cookies, knitted goods, books, gas money and similar expressions of deep gratitude.

ETA: I have considered paying someone from a local computer store, but just because they can fix them doesn't mean they can make my Mom feel good using one. What I really need is closer to a gerontologist who owns an iPad then it is to a computer expert.