While holding my loose crap from this morning’s mass due to Ben shutting off the water for flushing the toilet and washing the hands, I had to wait for an old timer to stop talking for over 30 minutes! But at least I distracted myself with an occasional glance or more at the spiky-haired Filipino guy, who is probably the manager of the store.
Maw bumped into Virgie, an old co-worker from the kitchen. She was shorter than us, doesn’t have medical disease and was VERY alert and talkative while we were shopping in SeaFood City. This is another sign of a nutter – someone whose conversation keeps going.
She talked about losing her husband in July at 98 years old AND the day after his birthday and mostly her special needs child, whom she brought home under a `conservatorship program`. The state is paying the old woman to take care of the child, who is now 21 years old. If she claimed the child as a dependent or adopted her, the old lady would end up paying for the child’s care with her own money.
The child’s name is Caroline Trevino, a Mexciana whose parents have not replied to a letter sent by this old but kind woman. Caroline was stiff in her specially-made bed prior to the `adoption`. But now she can get around in public with a walker, knows how to hook up her bag of milk to an feeding tube (due to weak swallowing muscles), speak English and Tagalog and find love from a blind lad, who visited her only three times in the past. But she cannot pull the bed sheets to cover her at night.
I wonder if Obama’s health care insurance reform bill would continue to fund children with special needs and provided the much needed funds to those families who earn STATE money, just take care of these special children. The child’s face (per a CA driver’s license ID card) was very long. Her eyes were shrunken but her crooked smile is beautiful.
Leave a Reply