Member-only story
Help!
“When I was younger, so much younger than today,
I never needed anybody’s help in anyway.
But now those days are gone;
I’m not so self-assured.
I know that I just need you like.
I’ve never done before.”
Lennon/McCartney
My daughter just helped me take the Christmas tree down and pack up the decorations — actually I packed up my Santa collection and she did the rest. Now she’s making soup for supper. This morning she bought a week’s worth of groceries and helped me put them away.
So why am I’m feeling like I need to DO something — anything?
It wasn’t that long ago (yesterday) that she told me to ask for help when I needed it, after she found me cleaning out the litter boxes and Swiffering down the hall. She knows my back can’t take leaning over those boxes, so she did the rest — with four cats, we have four boxes.
She’d told me the same thing weeks ago. “Ask for help. Such a Beatles fan should know that song.”
“I know that I just need you like I’ve never done before…”
It’s hard to see the role reversal. It’s hard to give up my jobs — retired nurse is no longer needed, housekeeper is too hard on my aging and stroked-out body.
