She Still Does This Part Herself
They make them smaller now. That's a real thing. That happens.
One step
“Don’t just stand there.” She was testing the water with two fingers. She got in. It took one step.
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Eleven months. You stopped counting the pounds around the time she stopped weighing them. Her knees came up higher every month, and that was the measurement in the end — not a number, just how much of her showed above the waterline, and how early it started showing.
Every stage of the sequence
- One step. “Don’t just stand there.” She was testing the water with two fingers. She got in. It took one step.
- One leg over. “It’s the tub,” she said, in June, with one leg over the side. “They make them smaller now. That happens.”
- Both hands. One hand on the rim and one on your arm. The water went over the side and kept going. “Don’t laugh.”
The tub held her the way a shoe holds a foot — barely, and with complaint.