SAFFY
Today I came home not to my home but Slade and Elton's house, which is where I'm going to live from now on.
They brought me home in an ambulance which was really embarrassing, I could feel my cheeks blazing as the ramp slowly lowered my wheelchair to the pavement outside their house, I was pleased that Slade wasn't there because things like that make him so angry.
I can't believe that they have done so much for me, I mean they've altered their whole lives for me so that I don't have to be on my own in the house for long periods of time and they've changed round all of the furniture and had new light switches put in that are lower down so that I can use them more easily. I know that my dad paid for it all but it must have been a real inconvenience to them. It was too much of an inconvenience for my mother!
My room is just so spectacular it's unbelievable, it used to be Slade and Elton's mum's room and it's the largest of the four bedrooms in the house and it has it's own bathroom which is specially equipped so that I can use it.
Like the rest of the house my room has stripped wooden floors, the woodwork is painted the exact same colour as the cream that gets all congealed around the lid of the cartoon if you don't clean it regularly. The walls are painted purple but in natural light it looks a sort of blueberry colour. All the fixtures and fitting's are silver so are the trinket boxes; which are one the dressing table. There is a really big window that looks out upon the garden.
My new bed faces the window so that I'll be able to see outside when I'm resting. The bed is covered in throws and cushions of every texture all colour coordinated with the rest of the room and you would hardly notice that it's a bed specially designed for people like me. It has controls that allow me to move it and myself into a sitting position and a special air-filled mattress attached to a pump so that I don't get bedsores from laying in one place for too long.
Elton and Slade have even arranged the closet so that I can rest all of my stuff and so that there is plenty of room for me to store all of the gadgets the rehab center have given me everything is so perfect and more beautiful than I could have imagined in my wildest dreams.
The bathroom is decorated is blue and white tiles the exact same colour as the sky and the clouds on a summers day and the floor is covered in rubber which I like to think is really cool. There is a special shower and a bath with little jets like a hot tub both of which like the toilet, the taps on the sink and the mirror are specially adapted for use by people in a wheelchair, like me.
When Grace, Slade's mum showed me everything I cried, I can't believe how perfect everything is here, the only thing that is missing is Slade and he will be home from school soon…