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“I can iine” It’s an automatic response but I really have no clue what it’s like for Billy

“Tois his speech He can form a few basic words but his dysarthria—the difficulty to form words because his muscles are weak—is pretty severe So while he understands what others say perfectly well, he can’t really communicate back ords”

“Then how does he make his needs known?”

Blue gives ht smile as if pleased by my question and desire to know e A lot of ti a question that he can say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to Again, he can form some basic words but he can’t use them in a coth or coordination”

“And I assus?”

“He does,” she says with a regretful sigh “But it’s not as good as his prior home He’s only been at the Cresson for a few ood as where he was before”

“Why did you move him?”

Blue shakes her head and waves a dismissive hand “You don’t need to hear all about this We’ve talked enough about—”

“I want to know,” I cut in on her “You’re right…I don’t need to know but I really want to”

She studieshard into ly satisfied hat she sees, she takes in a breath and lets it out slowly “When my parents were alive, they were able to afford better accoreat insurance and my mom worked part time They both had excellent life insurance policies too so that Billy could continue to get good care, but I’ some problems with the policies so I had tothat was more affordable”

So weird happens to me I had merely been deeply interested in Blue and that includes an interest in her life as a whole, which in turn includes Billy But as it’s beco clear to me that Blue has some really heavy burdens in her life,I feel protective of her for some reason, which means she’s only the second woman in my life to cause that within me

The first being my own mother, which is only natural between a mom and her boy

“What are the probleht and conversational, butto calculate exactly how I can help her

Blue stares at ratin potatoes I can see the question in her eyes