"Here, you're all alone with your aches and
pains, your spasms, your skin problems and your
bathroom difficulties. Just getting in and out of this
bed is going to seem like a ten mile hike, believe-- "Take my word for it,' she interrupted herself.
"Take my word for it because I've lived through it and
seen it."
She nodded with a cold smile settling in her
face and then continued.
"You think because you're home here,
everything's going to get back to the way it was. Well,
it won't, ever, so you got to work on making the best
of it all and that's why I'm here: to show you the way
and to give you the benefit of my experience. "Now that's the one and only time I'll give you
a lecture. If you want me around. I'll stay and I'll do
my job. If you fight me and contradict me and make
me work double. I'll pack my bag and go off to take
care of someone else whose family's knocking on my
door and who will be more appreciative.
"I don't mean to sound harsh, but if we don't
face reality right off, we're going to have a harder
time tomorrow. That you can believe whether I say
believe me or not."
"We?"
"What's hard for you is hard for me because I
got to help you through it." she said without
hesitation. "This isn't like taking care of some patient
in a home who can't remember her name and age and
when she went to the bathroom last. You've got an
active mind in a broken body. I have seen what that
can do and what that means.