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Crazy old people

I love my grandparents dearly but in all reality, just like every other old person, they are pretty crazy.  Its just one of those things that you nod your head at and don't even notice.  Until this week.  I will do anything for my grandparents but this week has been a test of that.  On Sunday my grandfather was taken by ambulance to the hospital for gut pain, ultimately being a blockage, and was released today after 5 days in the hospital.  For quite some time our family has tried to convince them that they may not be what they used to and should consider a senior living community.  Of course if you ask them, they are fully capable.  Don't mind the fact that they have trouble with the 6 steps up out of their apartment more or less the 6 more to get to the laundry room or that they don't clean or cook.  They are perfectly capable.  And old people are crazy.  As trying as this week has been on the whole family, it made it quite clear to everyone that they needed more assistance.  But with crazy old people, you can't tell them anything, it has to be their own decision.  Enlisting the support of my uncles and my grandfathers visiting sister and her child, we led my grandparents down the path to deciding that the senior living community in their town was their best choice.  Shockingly it was a bit easier than I expected but I guess there becomes a time when you do realize the situation you are presented with and the true reality of it, despite what crazy old people filter you have.  Now it appears to just be a matter of finances and moving them, minor tasks in the scope of things.  Please let me never put my family and friends through this.  
Next, taking away the car.  They may not like me after that one.

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