‘I’d rather have a lady.’
Anna was talking about her carers. It seemed a little harsh of her, as I was trying to help her to bed. The evening carers have not been very strong recently, and somewhat pathetically hold up their hands and say that Anna is not wanting them, so that I end up doing the business. And then , after the carer had gone early, she said:
‘I’d rather have a lady.’
In a way it is good news, if it means she will be more accepting of them.
Today she was asking for me again all the time.
Joanna, the carer in the afternoon, thinks that I should take a break – it is very cheap to go to Poland, she says.
It is a strange migration- where young women leave their lives and ther families in Poland to look after us in England , and we go on holiday to Warsaw.
Anna, sitting here, asks all the time to go home.