Drive

I had to facilitate a three hour meeting today, which was a fitting end to the week. Tomorrow, I think I’m going to the oh-so-trendy Uptown neighborhood to see either American Splendor or Lost in Translation. This will also give me the opportunity to go for the first drive in the van with one of my new nurses. I just wish I hadn’t told her the story about how I was once riding with my dad and brother and we hit a lamppost in a parking lot, causing me to fly out of my chair and leaving me in a crumpled heap on the floor. But I didn’t tell her about the time when the van died on the highway at 1 in the morning, my ventilator battery almost dead, and how an ambulance had to come and take me home. And I didn’t tell her how the van once ran out of gas in mid-December and how my nurse had to push it two blocks to a gas station.
After all, there’s no point in making her even more nervous.