The last few months have been a bit chaotic and we've not shared the news with everyone, but my FIL only has a short time left. I'm not going to go into the diagnosis, but the deterioration is scary and happening fast. I'm hoping that I can remember the good days as he has them, which are few and far in between these days, so that's why I'm blogging about them.
On my birthday, November 12th, everyone had forgotten, which was expected in between all of the tests and whatnot that FIL was undergoing. DH had told my MIL it was my birthday and so she had called me up and wished me. FIL found out it was my birthday and decided he was going to give me his traditional "pats" on the head as wishes, but this time it was harder than normal. Anyways, that's something I want to remember.
Let's fast forward to today, when it took me, my SIL and DH to get FIL to take his medications and have some biscuits and tea. He had fallen early in the morning while trying to get up to go to the bathroom and woke up with bruises. He had complained that his head was hurting so they took him to the ER and it turns out he only has a mild hematoma, so nothing to worry about.
Later in the evening I was making tea for everyone and I asked FIL if he wanted some as he was exhausted. He said yes, so I made it for him and when it was cooled off a bit I brought it in the room. SIL was helping him up and she was like, ok, no more, tea isn't that important. My FIL said "no, cha is important!", so he got up and drank half of his tea.
We (MIL, SIL, DH and I) were talking in front of their room and we burst out laughing. From his room FIL asked me why I was laughing and I replied back to him, what am I not supposed to laugh today? He then said, no! of course you can laugh. This elicited another round of laughter from all of us.
On my birthday, November 12th, everyone had forgotten, which was expected in between all of the tests and whatnot that FIL was undergoing. DH had told my MIL it was my birthday and so she had called me up and wished me. FIL found out it was my birthday and decided he was going to give me his traditional "pats" on the head as wishes, but this time it was harder than normal. Anyways, that's something I want to remember.
Let's fast forward to today, when it took me, my SIL and DH to get FIL to take his medications and have some biscuits and tea. He had fallen early in the morning while trying to get up to go to the bathroom and woke up with bruises. He had complained that his head was hurting so they took him to the ER and it turns out he only has a mild hematoma, so nothing to worry about.
Later in the evening I was making tea for everyone and I asked FIL if he wanted some as he was exhausted. He said yes, so I made it for him and when it was cooled off a bit I brought it in the room. SIL was helping him up and she was like, ok, no more, tea isn't that important. My FIL said "no, cha is important!", so he got up and drank half of his tea.
We (MIL, SIL, DH and I) were talking in front of their room and we burst out laughing. From his room FIL asked me why I was laughing and I replied back to him, what am I not supposed to laugh today? He then said, no! of course you can laugh. This elicited another round of laughter from all of us.
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