4.01.2008

Some days you just dance


"Fuck! I'm sick!" was his response when told that he had diarrhea and would he kindly stand so we could change his brief.

We helped him put on his black shoes, his dancing shoes. I took his hand and we danced to the silent music of the wheelchair gliding over linoleum.

When wheeling him out to the van that would bring him to dialysis, one of the aides said, "Don't dance too much okay?"