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My grandad has Alzheimer's. He's come to the stage where he only recognises my gran and watches telly... whilst the tv set is turned off. It's ok, you can laugh. I do too. What else can you do? He's been "dead" for about ten years now I think.
Right now he's having surgery on his pacemaker. The scars from the last operation won't heal and they decided to cut him open again. It's a little more complicated than that, but I won't go into that. I don't think he's gonna live much longer. But as I said, he's not been "alive" for quite some time now. I'm ok with it.
My gran asked my aunt to take her to hospital this afternoon to be with him before the operation. When my aunt turned up gran said she was too tired and didn't want to go anymore, so my aunt went alone. A while ago gran apparently asked the neighbours to drop her off at the hospital. She's there alone right now whilst my grandad is in surgery and then goes off to ICU. What the hell is she going to do there? Help with the surgeons?
Me thinks she's starting to show some Alzheimer symptoms herself... I don't think she could find her way around a shoebox anymore... let alone the hospital.

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