https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:27:18 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/grandpa-going-downhill#post-201500 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:20:42 +0000 Cole 201500@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You are in my thoughts and prayers, he sounds like an amazing man. I went through something similar with my gramdmother last year (similar age and she had dementia) and it was so hard because I didn't want to lose her but really she was already gone. If you need someone to chat with let me know. Best wishes to you. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/grandpa-going-downhill#post-201496 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:17:23 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 201496@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm sorry. :( I understand how you feel. My husband's Poppie passed away last year from the disease. It's terrible. I hope he holds on for you. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/grandpa-going-downhill#post-201495 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:17:20 +0000 banana 201495@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I"m so sorry to hear about your grandpa. :( I hope he holds on too! My uncle passed away recently and he had a sudden onset of Alzheimer's. He was young too (in his mid 50s) so I can imagine how hard this must be for you and your family. How wonderful that your grandfather was a part of your life for so long. He sounds wonderful. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/grandpa-going-downhill#post-201493 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:13:36 +0000 lilteacherbee 201493@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Aww, your grandpa will definitely be in my thoughts and prayers. Its so hard to watch them grow older :( I'm sorry you're going through this. </p> <p>I still have 3 of my grandparents with me (I'm almost 23) and I feel very lucky, but they have all gone downhill in the past year or so. I'm EXTREMELY close to my maternal grandparents. I told them that I'm pregnant yesterday and my grandpa said "well I'm going to try to hold on until February because I want to meet that baby!" Definitely almost lost it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/grandpa-going-downhill#post-201479 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:51:04 +0000 cyneswith 201479@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My paternal grandpa was a great guy - awesome husband (much better than my grandma deserved), great dad, active in his community, etc. He was highly intelligent, creative, strong, gentle, with a wry sense of humor. He's had Alzheimer's for a few years now, with a violent streak for at least two years (a little over a year ago, on a good day, he thought it was just past WWII. He sang and laughed and danced with me at my wedding, but he also asked if I was at Pearl Harbor during the bombing. Grandpa has been gone for a few years.) </p> <p>Recently, they moved him into a nursing home. Last week, he stopped eating altogether - he'll take some fluids, but that's it. He doesn't say anything other than "yeah." He stopped pacing all the time. My dad visited him yesterday, and the only acknowledgement he gave was that he reached to hold my dad's hand on the way to his room, and he glanced at a shirt my dad got him. His eyes were on the floor except for the second that he glanced at the shirt. He just toddled from the dining room to his bed and went to sleep.</p> <p>We're going to visit my relatives for a few days next week, then we're going to a wedding in Oregon. As much as I hope, for his sake, that he doesn't have much time left, I want him to at least hold on for two more weeks, so I can at least make it to his funeral. I feel bad for wanting him to hold on - I could just make it out there any other week. (And I'm posting all this here because, well, my husband's grandparents died when he was a kid, and my friends either don't have grandparents left or they never had a relationship with them. At least I had a loving, supportive, brilliant grandpa until my 20s. AND I still have the other one around.) </p>