four down

[opabinia]

Been away since Monday afternoon. Just flew home this evening.

I'm all out of grandparents. I'm doing well, and so is the rest of the family. She'd been bedridden, and fading, for 15 years now.

Next order of family business: My 91-year-old great-aunt, the last of my really old relatives, is too frail and Alzheimery to live alone, but she vehemently refuses to move. I think I've convinced my parents to take this up with Servicios Sociales, for her physical and their legal protection. My poor mother has been losing her mind over this, torn between keeping an old woman happy (but delusional) and making her safe.

I'm very relieved to be back in my apartment.

Comments

[deadwinter.livejournal.com]

Sorry, bro.

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear about your grandmother. Welcome back.

[julishka.livejournal.com]

*hug*

[couplingchaos.livejournal.com]

Welcome home. I'm sorry for your loss, and I wish your family well in taking care of each other. I don't look forward to making difficult decisions with/for my folks as they get older. :/

[panzerkunst.livejournal.com]

Damn. Sorry to hear it. Even when you know they're going to go someday, it's never easy.

[shnells.livejournal.com]

i'm sorry for the loss of your grandmother :( but i'm glad she's at peace and no longer suffering.

[sephardic.livejournal.com]

Welcome home.

We're offering a sale on hugs starting tomorrow: free to the recently bereaved (*further discounts for the recently discombobulated; unlimited refills for sons of anguished parents). You're just in time.

[annabelle.livejournal.com]

i hope your grandmother is running around like crazy in the afterlife of her choice. sorry to hear about your great aunt though. those decisions are never happy or easy.

definitely welcome home.

[sirendipity.livejournal.com]

: /

Must have been tough going back.

Hopefully, you mom will feel more at ease once your aunt is being taken care of.

[alonewiththemoon]

I'm sorry for your loss--it sounds maybe more like closure at this point, but it still must be sad.

[damiel.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear that.

[iterum.livejournal.com]

My condolences. :(