Dana is my new person. I
briefly spoke about her earlier in the week. I met her for the first
time on Friday morning last week and then again on Monday. Now I have
had it for the third time and can see she's solid. She's on time and
she's a good worker and she's fun to be around. She takes direction
well and clearly has her client's best interest in mind. That's how I
feel anyway when she is working with and for me. Dana has all the
best characteristics of my previous “good” caregivers without the
apparent baggage. I know it's quite early in our relationship but
I've not seen anything yet to think she might have issues of one sort
or another. She presents a great road history with this particular
agency so I don't see any reason why things should get weird. Having
said that now, I hope I have not jinxed myself. I mean this CNA
actually scouts around my apartment fall I'm on the toilet sweeping
up the kitchen, making my bed and getting appliances that I cannot
either reach or lift. Time to keep my fingers crossed.
Speaking of crossing
fingers, today was the monthly DRAC meeting which was also a planning
meeting for an action against one of the local legislators were
really trying to screw folks are low-incom which definitely includes
people with disabilities. As always DRAC meetings are weird meetings.
I have never felt comfortable at the DRAC meeting and before that
ADAPT. So many times I have been confused at what the goal of the
operation might be. Today,, which is the extension of the meeting we
had last week, plus a few housekeeping issues for the organization.
But it was like pulling teeth to get an overall feeling of direction
and what were going to do and how are going to do it. For the most
part now I feel the organization is relatively on the right road
going in the right direction. I sometimes feel a general feeling of
frustration that decision are not being made fast enough or
aggressive enough. Too often I feel that pride often gets mixed up
with goal achievement or the need to be out in front of a camera, any
camera, anywhere. Today for instance there are actually talking
about going to somebody's home way out in Draper to humiliate a
person, that we feel is making and influencing legislation directly
against our interests, regardless how difficult it is for folks to
get there on public transit. I myself feel that taking public transit
all the way to the end of their line and still having to hump 2 ½
miles to get to the legislators home and then retrace my steps. I
just do not know if these and justify the means. I was relieved when
it looked like direction of the action was changing to his office at
the Statehouse. This seems much more logistically friendly at least
to me.
Dick, my friend I think,
ask me at the end how I felt about the discussion and conclusions. I
just looked at him without an answer. I may not be in the right
crowd, again. Whereas I believe in all discussion for all the reasons
being discussed I just have a difficult time getting hot for the
conclusion. I will do it – – I don't know if I'd go all the way
Draper – – but I'm not afraid of the action I'm just not hot for
it. And I think a lot of the folks at the meeting kind of felt the
same way. I think they're willing to do what has to be done I just
don't know if they know what must be done is going to entail. It's
one thing to talk about an action quite another to go through one.
But many of these people have been the national actions so they know
what to talk about it's just me I just don't know what my commitment
level is or if I even have one. But we'll see it's getting time to
do another action and hopefully I can be part.
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