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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 14.
Published in final edited form as: Care Manag J. 2014;15(1):3–10. doi: 10.1891/1521-0987.15.1.3
1 Mrs. McGee: I don’t like mud very much …
2 I don’t want them to pave our beautiful,
wonderful
country
3 road.
4 Researcher: Yeah.
5 Mrs. McGee: At this point, I wouldn’t mind if I had a paved
road,1 and a paved
6 driveway.
7 Researcher: So, are you saying to me that in the summer-
time, you do walk up,
8 up and down, or?
9 Mrs. McGee: Oh, yeah, well, I, in good weather,
10 Researcher: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
11 Mrs. McGee: I walk …
12 Researcher: So, it is a …
13
14 Researcher: Um, okay, so then, not so much the driving,
but the walking you, you
15 Mrs. McGee: The walking
16 Researcher: know the patch, cause you know your road well.
17 Mrs. McGee: Yeah.
18 Researcher: You’ve been here a long time, that, that you just
know.
19 Mrs. McGee: Yeah, and that, that can be hard. And, I’m, I’ve
seen so many older
20 people who’ve had falls.
21 Researcher: Oh, yeah.
22 Mrs. McGee: And, I,
23 Researcher: Yeah.
24 Mrs. McGee: so far, I’ve never fallen [knocks on wood],
25 Researcher: Yeah.
26 Mrs. McGee: and I don’t wanna fall.
27 Researcher: Yeah, no that’s rough. The recovery is so …
28 Mrs. McGee: It’s very, very bad. And (other dog’s name),
being a dog who
29 throws up, even some days I take him, I have a
friend who lives just
30 2 miles away on (name of road),
31 Researcher: Okay.
32 Mrs. McGee: and that’s a paved road, so it’ll be 2 miles away.
He can throw up
33 in the car going over there.
34 Researcher: Oh.
35 Mrs. McGee: And, I feel, sometimes, I’ll feel guilty walking
without them, and
36 they don’t get a walk, but I, I do that, I, um,
37 Researcher: Yeah.
38 Mrs. McGee: I just drive 2 miles, and walk on her, on her road.
39 Researcher: Oh, cause it’s better.
40 Mrs. McGee: In the, in the winter. Yeah, ’cause it’s paved.
41 Researcher: Yeah, Yeah.
42 Mrs. McGee: So, yeah,
43 Researcher: Okay.
44 Mrs. McGee: I feel a little isolated about walking,
45 Researcher: Okay so walking.
46 Mrs. McGee: it is nice, just to go out your front door, and
that …
47 Researcher: Yeah, and when you were younger, you did
more, or?
48 Mrs. McGee: Well, I, I can’t, well, sometimes, I don’t wanna
do it, cause I don’t
49 want those dogs to be fill-, particularly (dog’s
name) to be really filled
50 with mud, and
51 Researcher: Yeah.
52 Mrs. McGee: come back in this house, and they just fill it,
I’m not a great
53 Researcher: Yeah.
54 Mrs. McGee: housekeeper. I mean, enough is enough, you
know.
55 Researcher: (Laughter)
56 Mrs. McGee: So, um, I can’t remember what it was like when
I was younger.