where he had a large reclining chair set up with pillows, blankets,
and specially cut pieces of foam rubber that held his feet and gave support to his withered legs.
He kept a bell near his side, and when his head needed adjusting or he had to “go on the commode,” he would shake the bell
and Connie, Tony, Bertha, or Amyhis small army of home care workerswould come in.
It wasn’t always easy for him to lift the bell, and he got frustrated when he couldn’t make it work.
I asked Morrie if he felt sorry for himself. “Sometimes, in the mornings,” he said.
“That’s when I mourn. I feel around my body, I move my fingers and my hands—
whatever I can still move—and I mourn what I’ve lost.”
I mourn the slow, insidious way in which I’m dying. But then I stop mourning.
Just like that? “I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life.”
“On the people who are coming to see me. On the stories I’m going to hear. On you—if it’s Tuesday. Because we’re Tuesday people.”
I grinned. Tuesday people. “Mitch, I don’t allow myself any more self-pity than that.”
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