Grandma@90

My grandmother turned 90in June2020. A cake was cut in the presence of her 3 surviving children and a couple of grandkid .She was perfectly healthy with good eyesight ,hearing, able to do things on her own ,and last but not least very sharp memory, recollecting all incidents time and again.

However, after 3-4 months, her condition began to deteriorate. We had gone from BLR to Kerala due to COVD WFH in September, so after about a month of quarantine, we visited her with amma. She was happy but could feel her health wasn't great. She was happy because she was with her fav daughter but also said that she was away from her other fav child, Balu mama and his grandkids. She feels aches in different parts of her body and needed someone by her side for massaging. She didn't do the daily prayers, was not interested in SOP serials anymore and wanted to lie down always. So home nurse was arranged. As luck would have it, not one has stayed till now for more than a month with her in spite of nearly 20000 per month as salary. Every nurse who came had only complaints and no mentality for service. A/C room, good food and no other work to be done - I wonder what more they can expect from this job ! Ammuma just needs assistance to go to restroom etc or turn or sit on the bed or walk to the verandah. She has less sleep at night ,complaints of headache and thats pretty much it. These ladies who come spend more than half of the day on mobile phones, FB, youtube and what note !

As i write this, ammuma is getting close to her 91st birthday in first week of June . Wishing her best of health  ! She has gone through tough times, given others tougher times and fought it all bravely !

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