I know I'd likely be singing a different tune if I didn't know now what I didn't know then, so to speak...but I wish my mother had had a chance to GET aged and decrepit.
It never occured to me until a month before she died that she wouldn't be around until she was in her eighties or nineties, like the rest of the wimmin in her family.
Oh, don't get me wrong - I would rather look after my parents myself until they're 102 than suffer like you have. All I meant to get at was by the time they need help, most of us should be not just self-sufficient but at a point where we can really care for them. It's not so easy to take care of an old person and a toddler at the same time, as Corin has illustrated for us.
Now, my grandmother, her we're going to put in a nursing home...
Right, plus by the time they're in their nineties I'll be in my seventies... eep, good thing that's a long time off.
Yep.
I understand Rosie. I'm just two and a half years younger than my dad was when he died. I feel cheated out of a lot of time with him.
Still, it's hard (in a different way) to watch them get old.
Nana doesn't ~want~ to be a burden. And I'm guessing she really doesn't see how much she ~is~ a burden. Her problem these days is that she's mostly stuck in her room and we're the only people she sees.