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[SkyDaddy7]

79. Yeah, you were "lucky"

I guess, relatively speaking, huh...That she was able to retain who you were. But I know the pain you must have endured regardless. It is such a twisted disease for the loved ones to deal with. IMHO.

My grandfather "Grandpap" what we called him...I think he always remembered who his wife of 63yrs was, my grandmother, but for the last few waning months he did not know who his 3 daughters were & he had long forgot who any of us grand kids or great grand kids were.

There was a really surreal time for me just a couple months before he passed...I had suffered a spinal cord injury & had been in the hospital for 4 weeks & after that I was "in house" rehab for another 8 weeks. As soon as I got home we drove from Atlanta to Live Oak, Florida so I could see him before they put him in hospice care because he was going downhill fast & my Mom & grand mother could no longer care for him. He basically sat in a chair all day & at that time I could not walk so the first day I was there I laid on the couch in the same room with him & spent some time with him even though he had no clue who I was. It was so odd talking with him because his mind was literally in another time period...The 1930s. He worked for the WPA during the Great Depression & throughout WW2 driving a truck & he was telling me about job that was coming up & really wanted to know who i worked for & my work ID#???? Not sure what that was all about. However, he kept asking me who I was working with & I had no idea how to answer & I could see this was bothering him & he was getting suspicious of me or aggravated with me like I was a shady character or something. I guess back then they had a work ID number or something & talked about their jobs & when I couldn't produce this type of info I think he figured I was up to no good. LOL! It was kinda funny & of course upsetting at the same time. He was getting so visibly upset my grandmother had to calm him down & let him know everything was OK.

So, they got him up & took him to the kitchen got him something to eat & I dozed off on the couch...The next thing I know I woke up to my 86yr old grandfather on top of me punching me in the chest yelling at me "We don't your kind here!" I thought I was having a crazy nightmare & then everyone comes running into the room & pulls him off me because I could not do anything but try to hold his arms but even still he was STRONG especially for an 86yr old man in his condition!! He worked a 135 acre 100 head of cattle farm for decades until about 5yrs before he died. Plus, I was incredibly weak due to my SCI being high on my neck really weakened my arms & wiped out my legs. He was not hurting me as much as it scared he was going to hurt himself! He had fallen just days before & had a hairline fracture in his hip so my Uncle & brother had been helping him around the house while he held onto his walker. But somehow after they fed him some lunch & brought him back to his chair he got up on his own & made it the 10-15ft or so over to the couch where I was! CRAZY!

I didn't let it bother me but it really upset my Mom & my Aunts, his daughters...They knew how much he loved me & all his grand kids & it just broke their hearts to see him like that. I tried to comfort them by telling them that is not Grandpap so don't let it upset you...No one got hurt all is good. But you know how painful it must have been for them.