Saturday, February 12, 2005
friend and former neighbor
Our elderly friend is to have surgery Tuesday. We visited her last week and did chores and ran errands. She'll be 80 this year and is not well. She asked me to come every Saturday and help her. She would pay my expenses plus a little more. I told her I would do it without pay. I got sick Thursday and knew I couldn't go this weekend. So my husband went to her house after work Friday. He carried out trash, washed dishes and listened to her. She is frightened and lonely. He prayed with her before he left. She doesn't go to church but is a member of one a few blocks away. They have been notified. She has some friends that are older than her that have been taking her to doctor appointments. Her daughter will take her to the hospital Tuesday. I don't think I'll be well enough to visit her at the hospital next week. I don't think she'll ever go home again. She'll probably be in a nursing home.
