I saw this meme on Facebook yesterday and showed my Mom and we both laughed!
We laughed because I am definitely the mouse with the knot in its tail and my Mom literally makes my bed and her bed every morning! I sit in my wheelchair with the same face that mouse has while she does this. I used to make my bed every morning in both of my apartments and I used to help Sean make his bed in our second apartment. I think that I stopped making my bed probably seven or eight years ago because I can no longer walk around the bed.
This morning, as my Mom made the bed, I had to ask her to stop and “Spot me.” As soon as I am seated in my wheelchair, I have to put my hair in a ponytail because I cannot stand hair on my neck at all! Gathering my hair into a ponytail has recently proven to be difficult for me. (t’s another reason why I normally have short hair!)
So, what she will do is gather any hair that is left on my neck to help me put it into the ponytail. I pull it out only halfway the last time I feed my hair through the ponytail holder to make sure it stays off of my neck. With the update of this blog, I cannot post the pictures of my hair growth for the last year of not having a haircut but this is the picture my Mom took of my hair growth:
Another reason that I do not LOVE my hair length now is that when my Mom washes my hair (because I can no longer do that because I have a hard enough time having my hands over my head to put my hair into a ponytail) I sit on the toilet seat so she can use the bathroom sink to wash it.
So, as I am blow drying my hair, (which takes a really long time) I feel like Absalom with my long hair getting caught between the toilet seat tank and my back. Absalom was king David’s third son who died when his really long hair got caught up in the branches above the mule he was riding. The mule got away and he was run through with spears by his enemies who wanted to kill him.
PS – My hair is now in a fold-over (or rather, fold-UNDER ponytail so as not to have hair on my neck!