I am just sick and disgusted by people. I just spent a couple hours at my grams. She was at the counsel on aging so it was just me, my aunt and my uncle.
They have finally decided that gram cannot be alone anymore. She’s confused, forgetful, newly clumsy, and she gets stressed if she doesn’t have someone around. Usually that’s fine. My uncle works at home but in the barn. It’s all hooked up with intercoms and monitors just in case. And my aunt only works a few days a week. But on those occasions when schedules conflict they need some help. That’s fine. I live 2 miles away, talk to gram on the phone a couple times a week, and visit once or twice a week. Apparently my aunt sent out a help plea to the rest of the family just for people to call and go by once in while. ****ing no one responded. Mind you she has 5 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren. All living within 10 minutes of her. That was like 2 weeks ago.
Then since no one stepped up they asked her niece if she would pop over on Saturdays to say hi when she wasn’t busy. Her response?...”yeah...for $15 an hour”. [emoji2959]. This is the woman who practically raised her.
Im so disgusted. I don’t know how you can treat family like that. Seriously...she’s like the picture perfect grandma. Until she couldn’t anymore for safety reasons she babysat these kids, drove them around, gave them money, baked them after school snacks, and weird fruit and jello molds.
I just don’t get it. Even my 13 yr old steps up and calls her and sends her emails. Ugh. People suck so hard.