wendy wrote:
anymore because it's SO depressing!!! Your story made
me consider the elderly. When our parents or aunts
and uncles or whoever we care about get elderly, and
have accidents or begin to become disoriented or get
terminal cancer or some other terminal ailment, we
don't give up on them because they are dear to us (I
know, in real life, this isn't always true, but
generally it is).
Sadly, it wasn't true in my family... My dad's parents lived with us for
years, and despite the fact that there were 3 children other than my
dad, 2 of them much better off financially, no one ever chipped in a
minute of time or a dime. Granny and Paw both ended up in a facility in
the end, but they lived with us for ten years before that.
When my grandmother died two years ago, she and I were very, very close.
I went with one of my aunts to get her a dress to be burried in, she had
gained a considerable amount of weight in the nursing home. My aunt
refused to buy her shoes or underwear because "No one will see it, so
I'm not spending the money on it". At that point in our shopping trip
(Friday night, big mall, packed out), she shoved the dress in my hand
and walked off leaving me in the mall crying. Before we burried her the
next day I checked to make sure she *still* had the shoes on. People
like this make me so mad... I've not spoken to this aunt since, but I
think of this often.
Last year when my kitty died (it's been a year today) at the vets my
family thought I was sick for burrying her... Can you imagine people who
don't burry/cremate their pets and just let the vet throw them away?
People are sick horrible creatures...
Steph
