Story notes: The Resident · 12:42pm Nov 5th, 2019
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So this is my first story! It's interesting to see something that I've made, even if it took me a month to write these 2,000 words.
I'm a big fan of Admiral Biscuit. I was inspired by this blog post where he challenged us to write slice of life about ponies on earth. Now, he meant stories where the pony was working, no the human, but this is what came to mind.
I've often heard the phrase, "write what you know," so I wrote about my job. I work as a CNA in a place very much like Autumn Woods. My job is a bit simplified from Shawn's though. One person has responsibility over the medications, while the other workers handle the work of moving, transferring, and helping with other things.
The medications are common medications for the elderly. Aspirin and Tylenol are pain relievers, while aspirin has an additional effect as a blood thinner. Metformin is often used to treat diabetes, and colace prevents constipation, which is a big concern in nursing homes. A pony, especially an Earth Pony, would see the plant analogues for most of these medications. Aspirin was historically found in plants, and she would interpret colace as a high fiber plant, like senna.
Clydesdale Fur Blight is a disease mentioned by Flim and Flam in their song, Flim Flam Miracle Curative Tonic.
Beauty Brass is a canon pony. She's the pony playing the sousaphone in Best Night Ever.
I worked in the kitchens in an assisted living home. It totally burned me out in 2 years, and I had been there longer than most. The seniors weren't hard to get along with, but management were... demanding.
You people do God's work. My wife's grandfather and her mother had to go through the nursing home, my sister-in-law works at one, and... you just have to be amazing to keep it together. I could never do that work. God bless you.
She doesn't seem that old...maybe this story takes place around the same time as "The Last Problem?" [1]
[1] And I almost wrote "The Final Problem", when I remembered that was a Sherlock Holmes story. Which would have been a rather grimmer name for the MLP finale, since Doyle planned it to be the story in which he killed off Sherlock Holmes.