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“Yes,” she said. She wasn’t going to ask how her mother knew. Black was easy enough, as it was the darkest shade her mother could see. White would be the brightest, gray not far behind.
“If I can dress myself and look put together, then I don’t need to call my daughter the minute I sprain a finger. I’m sure that is all it is.”
“We are going to find out,” she said.
Her mother slipped her sneakers on, grabbed her purse and they left to go to the urgent care center.
It wasn’t too busy mid-Sunday morning, so she went and gave her mother’s name and pulled her cards out along with her ID. “It says you’re blind?” the woman at the desk said.
“She is,” Kendra answered.
“We’ll get you in soon.”
“I don’t need special treatment because I can’t see,” her mother said.
“I understand, but you’ve got paperwork to fill out and you might need more time,” the worker said.
“That is what I’m here for,” Kendra said. “I’ll take care of it.”
She took the clipboard and moved back, guiding her mother, and sat down to start to fill it out. She knew most of the information since she’d done this enough times.
“Just so you know, Kendra, I could have called a taxi to bring me here. Another staff would have helped me with the paperwork and I would have been fine. I could have called a friend or asked Erika too.”
“I’d be pissed off if you did that,” she said as she continued to fill everything out. “I wasn’t that far away.”
“I know,” her mother said. “That’s my point. I could have done all those things and can take care of myself. I appreciate that you do these things, but it doesn’t always have to fall on you.”
“I know and understand, but you’re my mother. As you said, this could have happened to anyone that wasn’t blind and I would still expect you to call and tell me or take you if you couldn’t drive. End of story.”
Her mother must have realized it was time to stop this and was quiet after that.
They only had to wait about twenty minutes when they were called back. “Hi, I’m Alexa, a nurse practitioner here. It says here you hurt your hand doing yoga?”
“Yes,” Kendra said. “She told me that she did it yesterday.”
“Can your mother speak?” Alexa asked.
“Of course I can. My daughter gets protective of me because I’m blind.”
Alexa smiled. “It says you aren’t completely blind, correct? You can see me standing in front of you?”
“Yes,” her mother said. “See, Kendra. Get a grip. No one is going to take advantage of me.”
“I understand the care you’ve got for your mother. I’d be the same way.”
“Ask me what you need to,” her mother said. “My daughter will be quiet unless I don’t know the answer.”
And she knew that wasn’t going to be the case so she sat there quietly while the nurse said it looked like a sprain, but they’d send her to another room for an X-ray.
When she moved to follow her mother out of the room she was told to remain where she was. Nothing she could do about it, so she sat back down and waited.
She’d texted Ivan to tell him what was going on and then wished she hadn’t.
There was so much guilt she was feeling for not being there when her mother needed her and she realized she’d said that a few times in the text.
Ivan told her to calm down, it would be fine.
She knew he was right and then started to wonder if this was how all her relationships started to end.
