[2005] in Depressing_Thoughts
my grandmother
jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Mar 28 19:00:00 1991
My father and I went to visit my grandmother in the nursing home
yesterday.
She's pretty bad, much worse than she has been during any previous
visit I've made.
She moans each time she exhales, and I don't even think she realizes
she's doing it. Every once in a while she calls out "Nurse!" even
though she doesn't need a nurse for anything.
She was smoking a cigarette, with my father holding a cup with water
in it for her to flick the ashes into. Every time he held up the cup
for her to put ashes into it, she thought he was offering her
something to drink, and he had to explain that it was for the ashes.
Every time. Every two minutes.
Sigh.
