Since my Grandparents have moved in, I have learned SO much! My grandmother is suffering from Alzheimer's, she can no longer cook, clean, get dress, give her self a bath, or call people on the phone without help. (She can get dress without help, but it won't be on right or it will be like both legs in one paints leg!) It's very sad! I did not realize when they moved in, how much help she would need, I don't think any of us did. I can't really explain what it's like! You really won't understand, unless you have/take care of someone with Alzheimer's or a child with special needs.
Most of y'all know that I help kids with their violin on Saturday moorings from August - April. This has taut me so much! Since a lot of the kids are from China, they don't know English. I never knew it would be so hard to communicate with someone who did not speak English! It's very hard! From helping kids like this and others I have learned to work on having patience, which is something I think everyone has to work on.
When my Grandparents moved in, I thought I had patience! I thought if I could help a child that could not speak English then I could help someone with Alzheimer's! I was wrong! Right now my Grandmother can't get her self dress and it's SO hard to! Since she thinks she can!(She does ask for help at times.) Today I was giving her a bath (This is the hardest thing to do with her!!) I unbuttoned her shirts and was going to let her take is off, when she started buttoning it all the way up again. Then she wanted to get in the tub with her underwear still on. It's times like these that it's hard to say something! I don't want her to feel like I'm making fun of her or that she feels dumb. I just want to look at her times and go why don't you understand? I'm speaking English, but it's like I'm speaking Spanish!
I feel like I'm not doing enough to make her understand me, but I don't know any other why? I am talking very slow and using small words when I talk to her, but I end up repeating things more then once. At times it's very frustration.!I know in all of this God is trying to teach me a lesson. If not patience, them understanding how much elderly people need help! God has also showed me through having my Grandparents movie in, is that I would make a great nurse!(Not to be vain!) I just love everything about it, except the school part!:) I don't really want to go to school for two years, I want to get married! So that kinda shut that door, until I found out about CNA! This is something I could do! It's only like a 6 - 12 week class which is great! It will also teach me stuff that I could use when I am married and have kids The only problem with this, is that I have to graduate! Which I can't do for a year. I was going to wait until I was 19 to graduate, now I am not sure I what to do that!
So I have decided to give it all to God!
He has a wonderful plan for me and I know his plan is the best!!
Basically what I was trying to say in this post, is that I never knew last year that I would have learned so much from having my Grandparents move in and that God would work in my life the way he did!
At times they maybe very hard with having my Grandmother around and I may get very frustrated, but I love her and would not want her to be anywhere else!!!!
(I have decided to not post pictures, so that Sarah & Micheal have a chance to look over then before y'all do.)
6 comments:
Anna, That was a very good story. To often I forget that God has a plan for my life and worry and fret over things like, should I go to a big college, what career should I choose...and so on and so on, when I should just tell it all to him and not worry. So often I feel like the man in the Bible who cried out "Lord I belive, help my unbelive" Thanks for posting the story it was an incouragement to me to trust in him completly. :)
Anna like so be called Annabelle 0_o ={D
oops :) that "S" is supposed to be a "T"
this is a wonderful post, anna - I am blessed to hear how God has worked in your life. Taking care of a family member with special needs is certainly a sanctifying process, and it sounds like you have been willing to let God do His work in you during this time!
I look forward to seeing pictures of the wedding! You all look so lovely - and grown up! in your header photo!
This is a great entry, Anna. It is a blessing to see how you are seeing how God is using the trial of having others to care for to teach you so much!
The CNA program sounds interesting. I too think learning about being a nurse would be a very worthwhile thing to learn, even if only to use as a wife & mother.
See ya Sunday!
Thanks everyone!!
Trina, thanks for the comment!
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