The phone rings. You hear bf pick up the phone in the other room and from the way he answers, you know it's not his parents but yours. You hear him say "what hospital?" and you get a sinking feeling in your stomach. Your bf passes you the phone. From the confused rambling of your mother, you deduce that your grandfather had a cerebral hemorrhage and is in the hospital. That he's very confused, but not paralyzed. That he will have to stay in in the intensive care unit for at least three days. That he was only admitted into hospital a full day after it happened, the doctor first thinking it was a concussion from falling with his bike, only to realize afterwards that it was the cerebral hemorrhage that made him fall. That your grandmother, suffering from the beginnings of Alzheimers and often making derogatory comments about your grandfather, is suddenly being incredibly nice to him. That your grandfather, who is 79 but very fit and active, is human and vulnerable after all. |