Freezing today. Couldn't sleep again last night. Thinking too much, busy brain, heavy heart. Daydreams stole sleep's place. Yesterday was kinda rough, but today was better. Awoke this morning later than usual, bleached some crusty poop off the toilet seat (ALWAYS wipe the toilet seat in BB's bathroom before you sit, believe me I have learned this wet lesson the hard way, and when there's schizer I'm almost glad because at least I can see it first and sterilize). I set her scattered mess of items on the bathroom counter back in place and started the day. B and Earl were already watching Bonanza on TV. She took her her pills with out resistance. And the morning was pretty mellow.
Around noon the doorbell rang, B's walker and cane were delivered all new and shiny. Went to the park to walk some laps, move my bones and calm my restlessness. Grabbed some lunch at Sonic and headed home. When I got back Earl had gone to the store to get B some more "fudgies" (fudgesicles) which she can't seem to live without (one whole box of 12 eaten today). B was lying on the couch and I brought her a cherry lime slush and proceeded to destroy my burrito and chili cheese tots with onions. Jealous Californians? Muhahahahaha. Mmmmmmm!
My head down in food, I barely noticed her get up from the couch and zoom on over toward me with the walker. Woman hauls some serious ass in that thing! Normally she wouldn't have gotten up just to check out my lunch, but today she had a renewed fire under her feet. She stood over me smiling the biggest smile in days, not needing to sit down, and asked if she could try my chili cheese tots. BB hates tater tots. She decided she loved these and I gave her her own fork and she helped me finish them all.
Earl came back and she zoomed on over to him. "Hey Speedy Gonzales," I said "slow it down you're gonna get a speeding ticket!"... she laughed... "Earl, watch out, she's a speed demon in that thing! She's liable to mow you down. Better put some speed bumps in the kitchen!" BB loves her walker, which neither of us expected at all. We are sincerely shocked by her positive response. She's been zooming all over the house all day. I haven't seen her so active in weeks maybe months and she likes the attention we give her teasing her to slow down. "You know, I always wanted to be a race car driver. You expect me to go slow?" she teases back. Earl says she's like a damn kid with a new bicycle, wont get off the thing. He and I have taken wicked delight in watching her cruise around all day (I like to borrow it and pop wheelies), the laughter and the jokes haven't stopped, and neither has she. She even took it in to bed with her, so I'm afraid I'll no longer be hearing the familiar slow beat of the night stalker's shuffle 'cuz she's so stealth now rollin' in the walker.
She did mention to me that next she'll be able to drive again (please god NOOOOOOOOOO!!!), so I'm thing it's back to hiding the car keys from now on. She also, although briefly, decided to stop smoking (for a total of five minutes). Earl discovered this when he found all her cigarettes were missing and she finally fessed up that she'd hid them in a drawer by the washing machine and was going back on the Chantix, which as I said, lasted all of five minutes. It was pretty funny because we certainly didn't expect it to last. Oh, and Earl figured out how to switch the breaker off for the stove!!! So that particular fire danger has been quenched. Now I only have to worry about burning alive in smoking fires, not cooking fires. Baby steps, a load has been lifted!!! And once again, Earl is a damn genius.
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