She landed up up here in Morganton [Broughten Hospital], and law, every
time I'd go to see her once a week, I'd go a-crying and come back
a-crying, because you could see the difference in her every time you'd
go. It'd be worse. And they said she pulled at the door and just knocked
and kicked, a-trying to get out. Well, that [UNCLEAR]
[unclear] [was] how she was. But anybody don't know what it is till you
have to go through with things like that. The doctors told us that we'd
better get her up there, for she'd get out on the highway and get run
over and killed. One day I caught her a-going. A neighbor told me that
she was up in the road, a-going down the road, and I run and I never did
get to catch her. And I hollered on down there to a
home. I said, "Catch her." And she happened to see the house and turned
in there, but the cars would pull around her. Oh, that was the awfullest
thing I ever done in my life, is to help take her.