Non.Fiction.01.His.Bright.Light.1998 by Steel Danielle

Author:Steel, Danielle [Steel, Danielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Delta
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

His attendants spent more time with him than anyone else, and were with him from fourteen to twenty-four hours a day, depending on his schedule and his needs of the moment. It was surely more time than they spent with their partners, spouses, friends, or their own children. And as lovable as Nick was, it wasn't always easy to be with him. He had an intensity about him. A sense of urgency that meant everything had to happen "now" with him, faster than fast, as soon as he thought of it. He had fuzzy concepts of time, so that something that had happened hours, or even days ago, seemed like years before to him. And something in the distant future had to happen right this minute.

Julie's house was well over an hour away from mine, an hour and a half at heavy traffic hours, and when he traveled between her home and mine, he and his attendant would have to take that into account. Paul says now that in the three years he drove him back and forth, Nick would always claim it took just under twenty minutes. As a result, he would drag his feet, cause them to leave late, and then just laugh and say, "Tell my mom there was an accident on the bridge, Paul. It's okay." I realize now, looking back in light of that, that if as many accidents had happened on that bridge as he said, there would have been more casualties on it than in the Korean War, but their tardiness never seemed to faze Nicky. He would always explode into the house with a big grin, a kiss and a hug for me, and an apology for arriving halfway through dinner.

There was a childlike cuddliness about Nick, more than ever in later years. He loved being close to the people he loved, physically as well as emotionally. He would follow me around, just happy to be with me, he did the same with Julie, and he was happy just "hanging out" with his attendants. Paul says now that when he went off to do something, and would leave Nick with Julie or me, he would instantly get a page on his beeper, invariably followed by the code "911," to indicate that it was an emergency. Given the possibilities with Nick, he would immediately call in to see what had happened, only to hear Nick's cheerful voice say to him, "Hi, Pauly. What's happening? I just wanted to see how you were doing." It was hard to get mad at Nick over things like that. There was something about the way he did them that touched your heart. It was his way of saying, "Hi... I need you ... I love you ..." He found it easy to say those things too, but he had a way of reaching out and just touching you that made you realize again that you were important to him. And the men who cared for Nick, and went everywhere with him, were very important to him.

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