The citizens of Cuthbert, Georgia grapple with the loss of the town’s only hospital

[@melly1432]

I grew up right around that nursing home and hospital. I have so many fond memories of that place. My sister and I would often visit with the elderly there; and we got to know them. We each had our favorites. After school, we’d go around and help in serving them supper; or we’d just spend time with them because we wanted to. We participated in shows and pageants that were held for them. I remember helping my old neighbor Mrs. Dekle (I swear that 96 percent of my neighbors were elderly widows) to get ready for the beauty pageant whilst my sister was helping our distant aunt ready herself. I remember that I was taking tap dancing lessons at the time so I performed my routine for everyone in the cafeteria one day when was 12 years old. That was in the early 1990s before my sister and I became jaded teenagers. At age 16 I became very sick one day. I vomited 19 times in one day. My parents took me to this hospital in Cuthbert and after much more agony I was finally sent to Palmyra Hospital in Albany for an appendectomy. I’m grown now, of course, with a child of my own and it’s sad for me to learn of the closing of this hospital and nursing home. Oh, if I had the time to tell of the characters I befriended within the walls of Jo-Anne Burgin Nursing Home, Cuthbert, GA!

[@felicia9321]

I was a volunteer in the nursing home for 2 years, 14 to 16. I got so close to 4 different ladies. Late 90s.

[@felicia9321]

Omg...I dint know Mrs kearney was still living. Wow. I havnt been home in YEARS.

[@BigBass-xf5yi]

This is all so sad. We owe it to ourselves to stop voting for incompetence

[@elonnut]

Damn