16. bookends of a week

[nova_one]

Tuesday (August 13)Grampy can sometimes become ambivalent about my being here. I kind of get it. I really wanted to come down here, so I became a self-appointed caretaker - my mother and uncles encouraged it, but Grampy only acquiesced. Last year, when Nanny was here, the atmosphere was totally different. Grampy even paid me on top of what I

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[psion_dynamo]

that was a large chunk of life.

this sitch with your gran sounds really awkward.
could it be early stage dementia (hate to be barer of bad news)
http://www.aplaceformom.com/dementia-care/dementia-stages

Anyway, I need to get caught up on you to make more sense of the situation.

I'm a city person, at least I think. I'm not happyin this particular one, but I was miserable and depressed in the semi-rural town I grew up on. my family is pretty unpleasant, so nearness of kin is a drawback rather than a benefit.

It's a different perspective, reading someone who is happy that way. More power to you!

[nova_one]

It's my mother's father - my grandfather. Yes, it is probably early stage something-or-other - on top of that, apparently the cerebral cortex is one of the parts of the brain most susceptible to aging. And hearing loss and accelleration of dementia are linked. I feel like it's almost too late to train him to use a hearing aid, but since I'm here for a while we can take one last crack at it. Last year I left to go back to school just as he was getting tested / fitted for it, and I wasn't around for the critical, "okay, now let's use the darn thing" period.

There aren't a lot of people coming around, though, but maybe he'd get more out of going to church and feel slightly less isolated overall.

Yeah, I'm lucky to have an overall supportive family. Still, I must wonder what it would be like if I weren't into girls enough to be able to pass as "straight".