On Friday 4th October we went out to do some
errands for the first time since Sela’s accident. It was fun having her in the car fiddling
with her purse contents and the mirror. She finally saw a tiny bridge that was installed in our neighborhood near the
pond at the Club House. As leaves are
beginning to turn, she admired the bits of color on the very top of the many trees we have around Charlotte, maples as usual are turning first. We went to BJ’s to buy bread –some Portuguese
buns that are very similar to our pan de
agua. We then had a bite to eat
sitting in the car so that I wouldn’t need to take out the wheelchair again
from the trunk, and then we went to the ATM for some deposits and cash to buy a
lottery ticket.
This was a good start to her first outing with me, I
think. She came out of the car by
herself and used her walker to the chair
lift, while I brought stuff up to the kitchen.
It is now October 8th. Yesterday my parents would have been married
68 years. It was a nice day as Michael
and Anna came for lunch bringing a rotisserie chicken. We had it with a salad, for Michael is off
carbohydrates, having lost 23 pounds after reaching 204 pounds in weigh. He looks back to normal now, and his ‘belly’
has disappeared, thank God. He installed
something in my computer to make it go faster but it took longer than he
expected. So, they were here for a good
three or four hours, and we had time to catch up and share. This
morning we finished up installing it while he told me what to do through the
IM. Technology is just amazing.
One thing I need to get off my chest is this. Sela has had a hearing problem for some time
now. About 4 years ago we got a hearing
aid for the right ear, with a promise to get the second one, should she get
used to the first one. Time has passed,
and her hearing has deteriorated, and we have no money to buy the second one at
$14 hundred dollars –Medicare does not cover this. It is nothing major but very aggravating for
both. For her, because she often smiles
and looks away because she can hear or understand the words without looking
directly at one’s mouth; and for me because I have to repeat things 3 or 4
times. The second time I do, it comes
out more or less at a pleasant tone, but on the third and fourth, I’m already
screaming and upset.
I know, I know, I have
a short fuse, I should consider her impairment, be kind, compassionate and all
that… but at the precise moment these controls are not in my panel, not at
all. And, I get so aggravated and
impatient. I saw a hearing aid at a
reasonable price and got it, for her left ear.
One can re-charge it and it is quite small although not as small as the
other one. The thing is that it gathers
all noises and it bothers her a lot.
Noises like Otto’s barking, the garbage disposal, etc… But, I make her wear it at the lowest
possible volume setting, so that we can carry on a conversation without
aggravations. I feel really bad, and I see
the same happens with the kids and with Roberto and Vikki.
The lottery ticket did not win this Saturday –the hope of
the poor. Oh well… one never knows. Tomorrow we go to Sela’s doctor because she
still has pain on her arms and buttocks from her fall. I’ve given her the strong Ibuprofen hoping
that it will calm it a bit. She came up
with the idea of taking it at 3 or 4 in the morning, so that it would be easier
for her to get up. So, I gave her some
little fruit in syrup to take with it so her stomach would not suffer, and
heard the spoon hitting the little glass bowl, around 3:30am. At breakfast she said it was better and, why
where we going to the doctor? The day is
grey the temperature at 58o degrees.
Lots of leaves on the ground, and now part of the bare yard is covered
with a small fuzz of light green after the seeds were spread last week. Thank God for the storm Sunday morning and
today there’s a promise of rain again.
So, drink up little blades of grass and grow!!!!
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