You Know What You're Doing

I’ve been taking care of myself for a long time.

A really long time.

It’s not something I stopped to think about when it was happening, I couldn’t. I had to survive. Get by. Achieve. Take care of my sister.

When you’re taking care of someone else, it is difficult to see what is happening to you.

I didn’t think twice when I had to carry her up the stairs into our apartment when she didn’t want to walk. We had to go inside, or we had to go out. And if she didn’t want to, I carried her.