Nov 16, 2006

Yesterday (Wednesday) the cleaning person said she’d be here today, Thursday, at 1 p.m. She never came and she isn’t answering her phone. Our imaginations are going wild wondering what happened to her.

I am now at the doorway to Gary’s bedroom when he does the bed transfers. I asked him if I should just keep backing away, and he said he guessed so. He joked that soon I would have to get in the car and drive to Montgomery in order to get farther and farther away. Later would come Texas.

But, actually, I told him that the next step should be for him to do the transfers without me sticking a board under the castor wheel of his chair farthest from the surface he is transferring onto, and he agreed. His chair tends to slip slightly on the wood floor when he does his transfer, so to avoid that I have been putting a board under this wheel (using the transfer board for that, actually). But of course when he is doing this on his own, he won’t have me to put the board there. He is hoping the board will not be needed, that is, that he can compensate for the slipping wheelchair. He will have to practice this however, so we will start this process over with me close to his chair and with no board under his wheel.