Saturday, June? 4?, 2011

Nikki-chan, today Niko has a wheelchair.

Niko's trains for the whole year are also paid. Our prefecture offered to get a trained dog to help Niko, or to hire someone to sometimes go to school and help Niko, or to pay for her trains, so Mama and I said pay for our trains. We can't keep a dog fed and have no room for one. And I don't know what a person helping Niko at school once a week would do. There is a special flag on the wheelchair that people should make way for so Niko can get on in the section where the handicapped board. With this, Niko can go back to school earlier. I hope you aren't bored, Nikki-chan. Niko is excited. Apparently Eli and Nozomi did all this for us. I wonder what the president and vice president of the student council do, it seems like those two are all-powerful even though they are just assisting.

Also the hospital told Mama. and Mama told Niko, that Niko is hurting so much in the arm and leg because they both still have many pins in them. "Still" have? It seems in fact that Niko was supposed to rest mostly and not walk around on crutches except in an emergency, and there are still surgeries to be done on both legs and both arms and other parts of Niko's body. Instead of school tomorrow Niko has to be examined, but it's as easy to get to Nishikino Hospital as to school, so that's not a problem. And wheelchairs can, of course, go right in. So that's how Niko's first ride in a wheelchair will happen.