I think I briefly mentioned this before but across the street from our apartment complexes they Taylorsville Senior Center and it's like kind of a full service operation for seniors of course. One of the things they offer is a lunch a hot lunch every day except the weekend and quite frankly their food isn't all that good except for a few items which I find difficult for anyone to mess up too significantly. But over the last couple of months I've been paying more attention to the menu which is published monthly and we keep a menu tacked up in the laundry area on it's bulletin board. When something seems unusually appetizing shows up I try to keep track and then take the meal on. I noticed last week that friday, today the meal was going to be meatloaf! I love meatloaf and I suppose there's probably wasted mess it up but overall I'd take that risk. I think the menu stated it would be meatloaf, whipped potatoes and gravy and whatever green thing they chose to service the seniors with. So I stuck it on my agenda that I was going to go to the senior Friday lunch for meatloaf. Excite me these days but a possible meatloaf lunch was one of those that did and I just sort of hung around the apartments all morning waiting for 11:15 which is the one they start serving at the senior center.
I was actually in the process of putting my black watch cap on and putting rubber bands on my long sleeves to hold them up when I hear a knock on the door. I wasn't sure but I was almost sure who it was. Earlier this week when I met Kelly who was the occupational therapist Aid she indicated she would be coming sometime this week to see my strategies to get it and out of bed as well as possible address. I kind of thought today was the day but I wasn't really sure all I knew was that I was going to see her before she left for a week's vacation which I knew would be next week so finally the day had to be the day and of course. I yelled come in and it was Kelly the occupational therapist associate class assistant. She apologize for being late she had some issues with some of her other clients earlier and was just getting free of a long-term patience earlier on. I didn't have the heart to tell her that I was on my way out for lunch. I guess I could have done that and got my meatloaf but it didn't seem right Kelly had really had a bad morning and was openly excited to be here to work with me it's kind of Spooks me. I tucked my desire for a meatloaf lunch to the back of my mind knowing that I was not going to get done in time to get a lunch. That's okay not a big deal. I just kept my mouth shut and acted like I totally remembered today was the day that we are going to exhibit by disability lifestyle. Of course Kelly is enamored with me things I do so many incredible independent items. That's okay with me I always like a little hero worship so rare anymore. It's difficult for me to transfer from my chair to my bed but I'm fully clothed. Immediately I took my shoes off and saddled up to the bed. I explained to Kelly about how close I had to be to the bed how I worked the mattress down and pulled the arm off of my chair so I can transfer over. Then I did show her how I hung up on the trapeze and how I used it to pull myself over till I lost balance and hit the bed. She was impressed I was impressed that I was able to do the transfer with my clothes on it was a little difficult to hang around the bed and that's even more difficult to transfer back Kelly helped with that actually tugging on my shorts to help plus me over to the bed. She was excited though and told me to keep on doing what I was doing because I was doing great sometimes that's just good to hear…