Misbehaving

Well… what can I say?  We’ve been here just three days and Sela has started to misbehave.  She is quite an intrepid woman.  She needs no more narcotics and only takes Voltaren for her arthritis.  The graft we can’t see, but it hardly hurts.  The place where the tissue was removed, is very sore and it bothers her when she dresses or goes to the bathroom and the bandage moves.  Everyday there’s some improvement thanks to God and His Archangels and the Blessed Mother, that you all having praying to.

As far as her behavior is concerned, that’s another matter.  Since the first day, when Roberto slept with her, I moved my pillows right onto the bed next to her and became night sentry.  Roberto has stayed with us for three nights and we are happy to have him here with us.  Yesterday, on her way to her bathroom on her scooter, Sela slammed the Scooter and took off one of the doors!  Two of three hinges came away from the wall too, and she just turned around and said What was that?  It took us some time to screw the hinges back in place, and now the doors don't close properly.

I got Crystal the nurse to and care for Sela’s wounds and for Pam, the aid to come and bathe her as she cannot take a shower just yet.  One day at about 11am I asked Sela to keep still in bed while I took a shower for I had an appointment with Social Services.  Not ten minutes later, I found her WITHOUT HER BOOT in the middle of her room, trying to walk towards the bathroom.

So I say to her, Don’t you understand that you CANNOT bend the foot, that the implant may not work, and then WHAT?  Let’s see if she pays attention.  The Social Services coordinator, a lively Betty White kind of woman, came and told me what the aid could do to help me care for Sela.  So soon I’ll have someone to look after her for a couple of hours while I’m teaching.  I start the afternoon after Labor Day.

Roberto resigned from his job at Greenville and will be back in Charlotte soon.  We’re happy but worried about his situation.  Thank you for all your messages and prayers and for encouraging me in this journey that life has offered me.  It is fortunate that this has happened when I have only a couple of students and don’t need to be away from Sela for a long period of time.