My health aide also functions as my personal trainer to keep me active!

She comes from Africa, and doesn't know how to function smoothly as a citizen here.

She just incurred an emergency in her apartment with children that her apartment lost heat.  Temporarily, I gave her my space heater that my property management loaned to me to use whenever, which is occasionally, my unit in my room (attached to the wall) goes out.

Well, she saw it and wanted to take it to solve her immediate problem, but I didn't realize she thought it was mine; and given her disparate state of mind, I told her to take it.  I also said to bring it back, but evidently she did catch my drift!  They don't do that in Africa.

So, now I'm in hot water with my wonderful SOME management.

My solution is to try to get someone from her country or someone from the health care agency that I got her from.  I'm 87 and I am so thankful she knows how to function as a personal trainer too, because I function pretty well on the buses, stores, etc.  Let the agency explain to her to go to her property manager and make a complaint--no heat.

Meantime, since I've been living here over 7 years doing things as a volunteer for the government, I thought I would contribute to SOME's paying for a new space heater ($200), just in case- the health aide doesn't return the space heater I loaned her that belongs to the SOME building I live in.  And besides, the space heater I loaned her under emergency conditions has become well used through the years.

What do you think?  I want to retain my health aide who helps me adjust to old age living actively--doing normal, everyday things.  And I want to thank SOME for allowing me to live in their property so well adjusting to old  age.