remembering Velma

[redbird]

I suspect a phone conversation this afternoon will be the last time anyone addresses me as "Velma."

elisem and I were visiting with Soren at his parents' house, and one of the forms they were dealing with needed her social security number, which of course none of us knew. But right after Velma died, the nurse who was in the room at the end told them that if they needed help with anything, they should ask.

Soren doesn't like to make phone calls, so I offered to handle this one. I wound up leaving a message for the social worker, saying that I was Velma's sister and what we needed. The person who took the message asked me to spell my name, and whether I knew her date of birth, which I do. The social worker who called back, after asking "Is this Vicki?" sorted out what we wanted, and somewhere in there addressed me as "Velma."

It's something about the V's, we think, and the cross-naming has come from everyone from casual friends to cattitude and Velma's then-partner volund. The really weird part is that almost nobody called us by each other's name after she got contact lenses.

Comments

[kaberett]

Thank you for sharing this; may her memory be a blessing.

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

Hugs.