Florida

I'm back!  I got back at 9:45 Sunday morning and proceeded to not really nap and then go about my day.  I had only slep from 1-5am the night before because it was a 7am flight.  I was tired.  I think I'm getting sick too since my lovely little niece sneezed and coughed on my face the entire week.  But, according to my sister, "she's not contagious".

It was nice to see my grandparents, I just wish it were a longer trip.  Honestly, my grandparents aren't doing too well.  My grandmother is 81 and is going for tons of tests to figure out what is wrong with her.  She's convinced it's cancer and just wants to take a bunch of sleeping pills and end it all.  My grandfather, 87, will not take his pills even when you remind him 10 times.  He has decided that he is smarter than medicine and that a little pill can't possibly fix him.  "How does a little pill know where to go in my body?  If I don't take my pills my finger won't fall off, I'll be fine"  Meanwhile, I spent hours arguing with him about how medicine is a good thing and does help him. 

He's diabetic.  He's been on insulin for a good 15-20 years.  Without which, he would not be here today.  See, medicine is a good thing.  He's also in the early stages of Parkinson's and has a bunch of other pills to take.  He's 87, this is normal.  He doesn't think he has Parkinsons.  Because, of course, when he takes his pills, he's okay.  So he stops taking his pills.  He couldn't leave his bed at all on Friday because he hadn't taken his pills since Tuesday.  He continued his insulin because he wouldn't dare miss a meal.  The man can tell you the 3 meals he missed in his lifetime (as a kid, during the war, during a surgery.. for real). 

Anyway, my sister and I got mad.  It's almost as though he has decided because my grandmother can't take care of him for once in their 60+ years together, he's just not going to take care of himself.  This way she is forced to do it.  My mother even sat him down to make sure he understood what was going on with my grandmother.  He "doesnt understand what the big fuss is all about".  He won't drive my grandmother to her dr appts, granted he shouldn't be driving at all, but still a ride to a 3 hour test would be nice.

Okay, I think I've ranted enough for now.  Maybe tomorrow I'll talk about the fun things we did while there??