St. John's Cottage Industry

From: The Billings Gazette | Date: June 27, 2007| Author: Cochran, Diane | Copyright information

Caregivers at St. John's Lutheran Ministries call them cottage miracles, and just about everybody has an example.

There's Tom Passe, who ended his conversational drought with a phone call to friends. There's Dick Thomas, who began ambling around behind his walker after being limited to a wheelchair.

There are others, too - people who started eating enough at meals to be taken off nutritional supplements and people who came out of their rooms after months or years of antisocial b...

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