I’ve read that ALS does not affect the mind, but I have some very serious doubts about that!
As a rule I am not a very housewifely type of person. There are a few people I know with immaculately clean houses, but I am not one of them. I never seem able to wake up properly in the mornings, perhaps because I never get to sleep before midnight! Anyhow, this was one of those not so good mornings when everything went wrong. It took me ten minutes to finish poking myself in the eye with my mascara, another five to pull the brush out of my nose, and then another twenty minutes trying to fix the damage. I stepped back to inspect the damage and fell over the dog!
I try to have a good and calm attitude, when I start getting upset I remind myself that nothing is as bad as it seems. Life is short – laugh at it!
Despite my determination to keep this positive attitude, depression has slowly been creeping up on me, and every so often I tell myself, “Self, you are letting it happen! You have no self-control and you want to cry all the time. Stress does not control you, you control it!”
Okay, I felt better about everything and walked out to face the day…
M.I.L was already at her station and signalled me to her side. “Go to my bathroom and take a look at my basin.” She instructed. I looked at her with what I think was a puzzled expression on my face and asked, “why?”
“Just do it!” I turned to go, obedience and manners were drummed into our heads as youngsters, respect your elders and all that jazz. It was then that I realized I was also an “elder” now. I spun around to her, “listen, if you have anything to tell me do it. I’m not a child anymore, you know!” She replied, “Pollie (she is the domestic) has been off for more than two weeks and my basin is grubby. It has dirt in the rim, so take a toothbrush and scrub it!” I thought my ears must have been deceiving me and shook my head in total disbelief. Suddenly the hilarity of it all hit me and a sort of deranged laughter burst out of my body. Is the woman crazy, am I?
To avoid yet another confrontation my words remained silent but inside my head I raged! “Hey Lady I don’t do scrubbing, and I especially don’t do toothbrushes, Ok!”
“Turn the other cheek” was also a lesson from my youth, “well lady” I thought, “the only cheek I’ll turn for you is the cute one on my Backside! Do you know what else? I’m running to my laser printer and I’m setting it to “Stun” so watch out!”
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Date created: 2007-01-16
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