Just reading a post which has made everyone laugh made me think of an incident years ago with my Mom, Irene.
She was in a wheelchair but could walk slowly with assistance. I took her to the local supermarket, put her in her wheelchair, got one of those trolleys that attach to the wheelchair, it was like a military manoeuvre ! We had put about 5 items in the trolley when she whispered 'I want a wee'. Well, I got to the cash desk as quickly as I could, paid for the 5 items (we had a massive shopping list still to get), wheeled her to the car in a disabled spot right outside the supermarket cafe, unfastened the trolley from her wheelchair and started to put the items in the boot so I could wheel her back to the toilets, and looked up just in time to see a flash of her yellow coat as she was running - yes, running - out of her wheelchair and to the toilets in the supermarket ! God knows what the folk in the cafe must have thought if they were looking out of the windows. I must have looked like a fraud with an empty wheelchair and my car in a disabled parking spot, and Mom running to the loos. We always referred to it as her 'Lou and Andy' moment from the TV programme 'Little Britain'.
Weird how sometimes she could do things occasionally we least expected.
Odd disease indeed.
Jane
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