Payless Shoes

My first introduction to Huntington's Disease came when we were called to help an elderly who had it. It is an awful, degenerative disease that causes increasing problems with coordination (that results in a complete loss of physical ability), decline in mental abilities, psychiatric problems, and dimentia. She could talk but almost no one could understand her. She could walk but lost her balance and fell. Her dining room table was a piece of wood balanced on a sawhorse which was a recipe for disaster. She often fell against her 'table' which would fly apart and often injure her in the process. She needed so many things, but the thing I am remembering today is shoes. She didn't have any. We told her we'd pick her up and take her to Payless Shoe Store and get her some shoes. She was so excited that she would be gettng new shows that she tried to shave her legs and cut them to pieces. Nevertheless, she was estatic to get two pairs of new shoes. She had never had two new pairs of shoes in her life! We got her a used dining room table and chairs and made her house a safe place for her to live for as long as that was possible.