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Private Duty—Chapter 1

Tina smiled and felt her apprehension of letting a stranger take care of her mother soften as she heard Bette speak.
”Well you came highly recommended by the staff at the hospital and the home care agency. We were fortunate to get you” Tina walked to the door. ”My mother has a speech therapist and physical therapist that come on opposite days of each other and her housekeeper Loretta is here every other day cleaning”
Bette nodded and followed Tina into the next room where her mother was resting in a hospital bed. She had a EKG monitor and feeding tube hooked up to her as well as an IV.
”This is my mother Theresa Kennard. She will open her eyes and look at you when you talk to her but she can’t communicate verbally yet. She understands what you are telling her and she can blink her eyes giving you one blink for yes or two blinks for a no. Of course you have her medical history to see that she is also a diabetic” Tina explained grabbing her mother’s hand and squeezing it.
”Yes, I have her medical history here in this file and the schedule of when each of her medications is to be administered. Ms. Kennard and I will become very good friends. I hope she like jokes because I have plenty” Bette chuckled
”Oh she loves jokes” Tina said then looked down at her mother. ”You hear that Mom? Ms. Porter here will hopefully have you laughing. I hope so because you never laugh when I tell you mine”
Tina kissed her mother on the forehead who was still sleeping and moved a strand of hair away from her face.
”Well let me show you the kitchen and laundry room. My sister Tricia will be here later. She and her husband Greg live a couple of streets down from here and I have a list of phone numbers for you on the refrigerator with ours as well emergency phone numbers”
Bette followed Tina down the stairs and after showing her the kitchen and laundry room, Tina took her into the living room.
”You can watch TV in here. I will put one in your room if you would like”
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I remember this so pleased to see it back and look forward to you continuing it and completing it.
Happy New Year, stay safe
SG
Happy New Year to you SG! You stay safe!
This is a good beginning…. but please do not abandon your other story….. I so want to see what happens to Bette and Tina in that one as well as this one…..
I am going to have to start taking notes on all the stories that are in progress… I love reading them all, but I get somewhat frustrated when they suddenly end with no ending…. I get particularly frustrated when the story goes on for many months and chapters and then suddenly just stops – then years go by and nothing. And then suddenly the author will start to write again and starts one or two or three stories with no mention of the saga which I have been waiting for for months perhaps years. And the strange thing is that the stories are good and seem to be so close to completion. Another couple of chapters maybe????
Totally understand your frustration Martha!…If you are referring to Stolen Hearts it only has one chapter remaining for that book. I should post it soon. I have not decided to do a sequel. It would depend on demand. As far as Soul Dancing that one is far from over. This one however I have been writing on and it’s almost finished. It could warrant a sequel..but again.. that would be up to you the readers
Thank you for the comment!
I completely echo your comments.
A Happy and Healthy New Year Martha
Gr8 story. Sometimes forgiving ones’ self is a monumental task. Breaking patterns of self-hatred take more than a little bit internal tenacity. Tina will ultimately have to let Bette help her through the guilt and pain. And even Theresa will have to let Bette show her kindness.
Looking forward to more chapters!
Great story.. I hope to read more, please.
I remember this story and i am glad you have almost written all the chapters and yes i would love to read a sequel!
And of course I will read the other stories!
Happy New Year!
This is a really good chapter. Great beginning to a very intriguing story. Bette is very forgiving.