I visited my grandmother who has parkinson's disease. She has it very bad. Her head shakes all the time and her hands. I always remembered having this, but as i got older her parkinson's got worse. As i got older i realized how difficult it is for her to do things. Every holiday i got a card with money and she always tries to write something from the heart. As her parkinson's disease started to progress worse and worse her notes in the cards started to get less and less. No all she write is Love Grandma and Nonno.
It breaks my heart to see her struggle with the everyday things she used to do. After reading Tuesdays with Morrie i looked at dyeing in a whole new way. I want to seriously live each day as it was my last. I also want to visit my family more. I wanted my grandparents to have as much fun with my family as they could. My grandfather now wants to go to disney world. But its very hard for him to walk so it is very unlikely for all of us to go. Its really sad to see them so helpless. When the majority of my life they seemed completely fine. But i guess as a kid you aren't really focusing on illness and dyeing around you, so everyone seems healthy.
This makes me wanna work out to have great muscular control and I try to stay healthy to prevent any illness.
i think that what your doing is a good thing, with wantin gto spend more time with your family and trying to get them involved with each other. after reading your blog, i think i would feel the same way you do now after knowing that your grandmas life is becoming harder and harder and she cant really do much for herself, but yet she tries. at least that shows that she isnt being completly useless. i noticed how you said in your blog that it was hard to see how they were becoming helpless. i think that is true with most people that get sick or old, but your grandma is living her life everyday and is enjoying it.
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