Previously on Waiting for the miracle to come:
Grandfather: about 10 days ago, he went nuts and hit multiple times my grandmother with his crutches. Both of them are 88, both have serious health issues, and lived at home. After the hitting and another violent outbreak, and he begged us to take him away from home, we found him a place in a nursing home, which is honestly not bad, in a nice place with a great view (and that charges us 2.500 Euros a week - over 3 thousand USD).
From then, it's been downhill, and not in a good way: after a couple of days he started forgetting things, then stopped eating and so on.
In this episode
After working on Saturday (fuck), yesterday I went with the Sponsor (aka Dad) to see Grandfather. In addition to not eating, he's completely lost his mind (in less than 10 days). He has no clue about where he is, is desperate to go home.
Grandmother, however, is having serious problems and may need to replace her knee prosthesis, which at 88 is no small deal.
Dad is not doing good either, working too much and with too many things on his shoulders, the last thing he needed right now was facing his own crying father, who was begging to be taken home.
And in this mess, nobody even guessed that he could stay with my parents: when they got married, he cut them financially, and never ever helped them out, so the Panther (aka Mom) pretty much hates him, and can't really be blamed for that, so there's no way in hell she would agree to look after him. Dad, on the other side, works well over 70 hours every week, so he's no option either.
All in all, this was deeply depressing. I'll try to use these nursing home souvenirs as a motivator for hitting the gym more often.
In the meanwhile, have some fitness thinspo and motivators!
winner of NYC Marathon 2011 (woman)
3 comments:
Per quanto certe persone si auto nominino la nostra famiglia, capiamo che i ruoli che assumono spesso non li sostengono come si sono prefissati. Comprendiamo così che l'unica famiglia siamo noi stesse...Mi dispiace per i tuoi nonni, anche il mio non sta un granché...*Ti sono vicina*
*Huggles*
Do go visit him, but PLEASE remember him how he was before he started going downhill, ok?
All my love to you and your family.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
courage!!!
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