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Mrs. Roberts

PIC OF MRS. ROBERTS ON THE SIDE ^^^^^^

"Hello Mrs. Roberts, how are you feeling this afternoon?" I asked my favorite patient as she was rolling around her apartment in her wheelchair as if she lost something. Her apartment was really small, so she didn't have much room to move around in her chair.

"Oh Dear I'm so glad your here, I cant seem to find my glasses anywhere. I've looked everywhere, Oh sweet dear can you help me find them?" She said as she hung her head in defeat.

Mrs. Roberts has short term memory loss and she's had two strokes which left her in a wheelchair. Ive been working for her for a while now and her and I have become quite close. I tell her all my problems and she shares what happens on the soap operas so it works out for us.. I love her as if she was my very own grandmother. 

"I found them Mrs. Roberts, they are on your forehead." I said as I reached up and grabbed them off her head to hand them to her. She starts laughing and puts them on. 

"Oh child thank you much better now, So now that your here and I have my glasses I need you to look through those papers over there on the desk and help me find my grandsons birth certificate." She said while adjusting the oxygen level on her tank. 

"Mrs. Roberts are you getting enough air? I can adjust that for you if you'd like.(I grab her oxygen tank and change the levels) What grandson are you referring to? I didn't know you had any children let alone grandchildren. You never mentioned you had a family" I said sounding confused. I was told when I accepted this job that she was the only person left in her family. I thought it was very sad, it's also what I thought brought us closer together. But if she does really have family that is great.

"I have a daughter and a grandson, but you can say I don't have any family left. She wants nothing to do with me, because I tried to take her son from her. She's never been the mother type. I knew immediately that I wouldn't  have any grandchildren. But she surprised me when she showed up on my door step pregnant with some drug dealers baby. I helped her through the whole pregnancy, but when it came time for the baby to come she panicked and decided she wasn't ready to be a mother just yet and she considered adoption. I sure wasn't having any of that. So I made her keep the baby. She would scream at him every time he cried, or she would slap him every time he would go in his diaper. I couldn't take it anymore, so I called children services on her but before they could investigate she left my home with my 3month old grand baby and I haven't seen her since." She said while tears were rolling down her face, like she just relived that whole experience.

I couldnt imagine a mother hurting her infant baby like Mrs. Roberts just described her daughter of doing. My heart ached for Mrs.Roberts and the baby who had to go through all that. I didn't wanna say nothing to her because I didn't want her to continue on while she was so upset. It's not good for her to be stressed, so I just let it go and walked over to the computer desk to search for the birth certificate. It took me 20 mins to find it, it was hidden under a whole lot of other papers. 

"I found it Mrs Roberts, it is right here. How long have you had this, and how come your deciding to find him now after all this time?" I said as I handed her the paper that looked to be about 20 yrs old at least. She looked over the paper as if it was an antique, she smoothed it out slowly so that it wouldn't rip. 

 "Oh deary you don't know what this means" She looked at me with a smile on her face.

"Care to fill me in Mrs. Roberts? You know I'm here for you and Ill help you anyway I can;" I said as I sat in the recliner next to her. 

" Well hun as you can see, Im not getting any younger and Ive decided that I can try one last time to locate him and leave him my belongings. Im sure not leaving them behind for that mother of his. That reminds me I need you to take this to my Lawyer over on Third St. Ill give you the address and the money for the bus. I really need him to have this so that he can find my grandson. I don't wanna do this through the mail, I don't want it lost, and I want it done as fast as possible" She said sounding hopeful.