Apr 25, 2024
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friendly reminder to check in on them if you have the capacity and a good relationship with them. i've been calling my grandma every other week since my grandpa passed and she's just happy to talk to someone and that someone thinks about her. i live far from her and i can't always visit but i'm just hoping these phone calls become an 'us' thing for her.
Mar 14, 2024
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My grandmother got dementia this past year and for months I was scared to go up to visit her because she felt distant, and I didn't really know how to talk to someone with dementia.
Eventually I got over myself and started visiting her a couple times a week. Often she wouldn't know who I was, but her face always lit up whenever she saw me that it didn't matter in the end.
One day, I was helping her walk to her room to lay down, when she looked at me with such alertness in her eyes and started asking me all about how my job was doing, stories she remembers about me, and telling me how she feels in her day to day. We talked for almost an hour like this before she lapsed back into a more confused state.
Looking back, I realized that must have been the most I talked to her in one sitting and although that filled me with a lot of regret and guilt, I am so grateful I got the chance to connect with her before it was too late.
She's in a nursing home now, and doesn't recognize me anymore, and that's okay.
May 15, 2025
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it’s nearing the one year anniversary of my grandmas death and i miss her.
Mar 30, 2025
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