From: Admin_man (70.132.138.225)
Subject: Alternative to Nursing Homes
Date: January 27, 2006 at 2:51 pm PST

Now here's a GREAT solution to the aging dilemna, from
someone who sent this to me.

Enjoy, Dawn

No Nursing Home for Me ...
About 2 years ago my wife and I were on a cruise
through the western Mediterranean aboard a Princess
liner. At dinner we noticed an elderly lady sitting
alone at a table along the rail of the grand stairway
in the main dining room. I also noticed that all the
staff, ships officers, waiters, busboys, etc., seemed
very familiar with this lady.

I asked our waiter who the lady was, expecting to be
told (with all of the attention she was receiving)
that she was connected somehow to the owners of the
line ... but he said he only knew that she had been on
board for the last four cruises, back to back.

As we left the dining room one evening I caught her
eye and stopped to say hello. As we chatted I said, "I
understand you've been on this ship for the last four
cruises." She replied, "Yes, that's true." I stated,
I don't understand" and she replied, without a pause,
"It's cheaper than a nursing home."

So after considering my conversation with this lady,
and doing a little more research ... I've made the
decision, as this lady had, that there will be no
nursing home in my future. When I get old and feeble,
I am going to get on a Princess Cruise Ship.

Here's why ...

The average cost for a nursing home is $200 per day. I
have checked on reservations at Princess, and with the
long term discount plus the senior rates ... the price
comes to $135 per day.

That leaves $65 a day for:

* Gratuities, which will only be $10 per day.
* I will have as many as 10 meals a day if I can
waddle to the restaurant, or I can have room service
(which means I can have breakfast in bed every day of
the week).
* Princess has as many as three swimming pools, a
workout room, free washers and dryers, and shows every
night.
* They have free toothpaste and razors, and free
soap and shampoo.
* They will even treat you like a customer, not a
patient. An extra $5 worth of tips will have the
entire staff scrambling to help you.
* I will get to meet new people every 7 or 14
days.
* TV broken? Light bulb need changing? Need to
have the mattress replaced? No Problem! They will fix
everything and apologize for your inconvenience.
* Clean sheets and towels every day, and you don't
even have to ask for them.
* If you fall in the nursing home and break a hip
you are on Medicare; if you fall and break a hip on
the Princess ship they will upgrade you to a suite for
the rest of your life.

Now hold on for the best!

Do you want to see South America, the Panama Canal,
Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Asia? Princess will
have a ship ready to go. So don't look for me in a
nursing home, just call shore to ship!
P.S. And don't forget, when you die, they could just
dump your old worn-out body over the side at no
charge!

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