All the years that I’ve been married to my Hubby, we’ve had a standing date to visit Hubby’s folks on the weekend. We lived away from here for about nine years, so that wasn’t possible. But when we moved back, the tradition continued. Sometimes I work on the weekend and I’m not able to go with Hubby. But sometimes I don’t work, so I’m able to go with him.
My In-Laws have been blessed with good health all these years. My FIL has been getting pretty crippled with arthritis, but he still tries to keep going and he never complains. Unfortunately about three years ago, his mother started showing signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Her condition has rapidly been getting worse. She’s been diagnosed at stage 7, which I understand is the last stage.
My FIL insists on keeping her at home. It’s been a difficult road, especially for the daughters, but they’ve managed. It’s very sad to see all of this happening, but my MIL does have some good days. Today was one of those days.
I didn’t have to work today, so I got to go visiting with Hubby today. Hubby’s brother and wife were there along with his sister that goes over on the weekends to help. MIL seemed very tired when we got there, but they had just finished with their noon meal. In spite of feeling tired, she wanted to get up and go. Where did she want to go? As soon as she was up, she couldn’t remember, but we walked with her through the room until she wanted to sit down again. A minute later, she wanted to go again. This went on for the two and a half hours that we were there.
We all did a lot of talking, and MIL tried to join in. It wasn’t long until she was “talking” with us and even making a few jokes! We were all amazed at how much “fun” she seemed to be having with all of us there. She was smiling a lot. At one point, Hubby put his hat on her head and she left it on, so I took her picture.
I took another picture of her sitting on the sofa with her daughter. I told her to smile, and she acted silly with me.
We all got quite a kick out of her antics and jokes. It was a good day. It was almost like having her back again. At least for a day.
