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?"

Profound love

"I need you like a heart needs a beat."

One Republic

Sometimes I feel mute

setting- nursing assistant trying to help a patient get ready for a shower

me: "Hola! Um..okay, Voy ah..voy a ayudarle a qui-tarse?"
(I'm going to help you undress)

patient: "No entiende nada."
(I didn't understand a thing that you just said)

me: "oh."

Academic Revelation

"I didn’t have enough time to read this paper and so I thought- I’m just going to skim it and turn in a bad assignment. Then I had a revelation- the point was to read the article and understand it, so I did that and didn’t do the assignment." - AC