Happy Veteran's Day, Granddaddy

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Gracie W

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SOOO I just got off the phone with my grandfather, whom I called to wish a Happy Birthday and a Happy Veteran's Day, since he's a WW2 vet.

He doesn't remember me.

He remembers my grandma and WW2....and that's about it.

It sucks. My granddad and I were always really close-I was the only granddaughter he would take fishing, and whenever he saw something that reminded him of me, he would buy it and send it out. I would do the same. His favorite was a Beanie Baby elephant named Jimbo, because Jimbo was what my dad called him. My dad was the only one to call him that, actually.

He would never say good luck or do well in school. He would just tell us to get hundreds. This is the first time I've talked to him where he's never said that.

My eyes are red from crying. I'm losing my granddaddy, who will probably never get to meet his great-granddaughter, and it breaks my heart. He would love William, but they will never meet.
 
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Sounds like Alzheimer's... such a terrible disease.

I can't imagine what that must be like. I'm really close to my grandparents as well, shit they raised me since I was 13 and were the only ones to give me any kind of support while I was in college. I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.

So sorry to hear about this :sad:
 
No ferengi, it's just dementia, though it's more like old age.

I don't know how my cousins are taking it. I don't think any of them have really talked to him. My cousins in New York and New Jersey are I think more aware of it, since they saw him while he was slowly loosing his memory. Today was the first time I talked to him since Thanksgiving my senior year of high school which was almost three years ago. God the change is huge. My mother's talked about it, my grandma's talked about it, my aunts have talked about it....but it wasn't quite real until I talked to him. If anything, my cousins have come to terms with what's happening to my granddad.

I talked to William when he came home, and I cried a lot more. I realized that I'd lost the man that I knew as my grandfather, and now I have to wait for his shell to pass on, which I think is the worst part. We celebrated Thanksgiving with my mom's family because we all believed it would be my granddad's last one.....it would have been a kindness if it was.

On through the stages of grief.....
 
Yeah, my grandpa died of cancer recently. He did leave me this ancient revolver though with an ivory handle. I use to sit with him at dinner and he would have constantly nose bleeds and shake and sometimes he forgot where he was.
It could have been because grandma kept stepping on his oxygen tube...
 
Damn, thats hard. I hope that you can get support from anyone who will help.

My grandparents raised me till i was 12 because my mom was always with an abusive bf, and my father fucked my aunt and ditched when i was like 3 months old. I'd be devestated if anything ever happend to them.
 
Heard some more news about my granddad. My mom said today that he could go at any minute.

Earlier this week he had an episode where one of his heart valves closed. When he came to, he looked up at my grandma and said "Who are you and what are you doing in my house?"

It took her fifteen minutes of asking him to name his family members when he finally remembered who she was. My mom found this all out right after she found out her best friend from high school who suffered from muscular dystrophy had died of an intentional seizure.
 
Thanks Silk. I'm going to be OK, I'm just sad right now. I hate waiting for my granddad to die, and I know my mom is heartbroken. Her best friend had called her to say good-bye I guess, and that broke my mom's heart. My mom didn't get to see her very often because her best friend lived in Albany. She's known this woman for....shit, maybe almost fifty years.

Losing loved ones suck.
 
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