Off to Day Care

Today is Mom's first offical day at Adult Health Day Care.

The original plan for getting mom to and from daycare, was for me to take her there, and for the facility to arrange a ride home.
Well, somehow the request got slightly modified, and while I was just finishing putting mom in the car, Secure Transportation arrived to pick her up.
It was an actual blessing in disguise as I was running late (this being a whole new schedule for me now). So we unloaded the wheelchair, oxygen tanks, backpack and mom. Put mom in the chair, snapped on the backpack to the chair, handed the extra tank to the driver and she was ready to go.

The driver wheeled her onto the liftgate then into the van. With safety straps he anchored down her chair in the front and back, then anchored her down. The only thing missing was the orange jumpsuit and the armed guard............hehehe. I watched till they pulled away. It was like sending my little girl off to school for the first time.

She had gone last week for her accessment, but this was the real, official, "on a schedule now" day. They will bring her home around 2pm. I told her to have lots of fun and that she could call me at work when she got home and let me know how much fun she had. Not that she will remember that, but I wanted her to know, at least for that moment, that I wasn't shipping her off to Buffalo and going to forget about her. She had a personal chauffer with her own limosine, that was going to take her to the center where she could play and have fun all day!

And off they went. Mom with her backpack that held a change of clothes, her wheelchair, oxygen tanks and all.

I've rescheduled for Secure Transportation to pick up and return home Mom from Day Care. I'll still get to see her off and wish her a good day as they will be there before 8am. I think this will work best for both of us.