My Grandfather
He is 97 years old.
He is a man of few words.
When he just moved in with us, he often scares me in the middle of the night by opening my door and chase me to bed with his scoldings.
He off my lights when I was bathing.
He asks food from me like a little kid. I remembered once I was eating a cheese omelette I made for breakfast and he kept telling me he wants it like a little kid who wants sweet. Its cute seeing him eat smt I made.
He is probably the only 97 year old man who would eat a Pizza & McNugget.
He is just like an old man with a 5 year old heart. When my grandma was still alive, they would be like kids. I remembered the one night they were on the sofa, in the living room, in the middle of the night, bikering cos he didnt want to sleep thus my grandma sat there with him. "You dont want to sleep luh? I shall sit here with you then" Then after a while, guess he wanted my grandma to sleep so he went to bed like a good boy. Aint they the cutest?
He only listens to my grandma.
He scolds when me and mummy talk too loud.
He scolds when I sit on the table.
He scolds when Im up awake at unearthy hours.
He forgets me sometimes but thats ok.
He goes "aiya aiya" when he is in pain, and I find it really cute.
He sits in the living room till everyone has gone to their room.
He walks in and out of his room when everyone comes for family gathering. &I wonder if he knows who we are.
He eats like he havent eaten for the entire day, though he just ate a moment ago.
He walks in and out of his room to check on the lights and everything else.
There is so much more that I can remember of him since the day he came.
Today my mom told me he haven been eating lately. That brought my mood down.
I went into his room and realised how much weight he loss.
He cant eat, cos it hurts too much for him to swallow food.
He's only been drinking water.
He cant summon enough energy to get down his bed. No more of his daily petrol around the house.
He dont scold like he used to.
I rather see him eat 15 meals a day, complaining that he is hungry and haven ate his meal though he probably ate 4 already, than now, not being able to eat anything at all.
I rather him walk around and scold me for being awake then only lying on his bed the whole day.
A man that probably stands 1.76m, move in looking stickthin, now that is just an understatement.
Now he cries out in the middle of his sleep, but we dont know which part of him is hurting and all we can do is just check on him every other hour or whenever he makes any noise.
Its sad when I see my 8 year old cousin making funny faces behind him cos she dont know what hes going through and thinks that he is very fierce.
So much said but what can I do?
I just pray that he will be well sooon. Although 97 is a tad bit too old and his systems is slowly failing on him. I just hope he would suffer less pain.
Though you might have been really fierce to me, I miss teasing you and sitting on the table on purpose to see your angry face cos its just really super cute, it makes me laugh. You're the cutest ah gong I swear, love you.
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