Jan 2, 2007

Quote for the day: “There is a fine line between tough love and cruelty.”

– Gary Gruenhage

The above was prompted when Gary called me into the bedroom after he’d transferred into bed and told me he’d knocked one of his urine bags onto the floor and would I pick it up. I told him he could transfer back into this chair and wheel around to the other side of the bed and pick it up himself. Maybe he was also thinking of how, earlier in the day, he called me into the laundry area and, with a big pile of clothes on his lap, told me he’d dropped a sock and would I pick it up. I told him it would be a good balance exercise if he picked it up himself. He said that then I would have to pick up a lot more clothes. I said no I wouldn’t, he would.

(And yes, we were joking around both times, and I picked up the bag and the sock for him ;-))