Diane Bright,
Personal Services Volunteer
I have been working with my client, Virginia for over a year now. We meet once a week in her home, and my job is to do reading and writing for her. I use large black markers she provides to make big letters on paper which she can more easily see with Macular Degeneration.
I also read articles from periodicals to her, notes and cards people have written, and various sorts of other correspondence she needs to have read. I have taken her to several events, including the Commission on Aging, to which I am our town's rep.
We have had a wonderful time together. We have lots of giggles and laughs, accomplish much in our hour and a half together, and work toward organizing her obligations in a functional way so that she can address them with greater independence.
We've supportively tossed ideas around a lot. She's become my good friend, and I, hers. It has been a great relationship and a deeply rewarding friendship. I look forward to our time together each week. We really listen to each other in ways that count.
--Diane Bright
