The Blessings of Old Age
Mar. 28th, 2010 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shinelumiereAs I sit here playing cards on my computer, I am blessed with the privilege to hear the debate between my mother and her mother on how one of the pills she's prescribed does or does not affect her water output, to put it nicely...
While I comfort myself that I can play the "its not my mother" card in that department, it makes me wonder what my own mother will be arguing with me years from now. It's rather hard to imagine my mother at 90, but given that her mother is there now, its very likely to happen. Unlike my grandmother, my mother has her full hearing and can understand the doctor when he's explaining what he's prescribing and why. My mother also has the fact that she's an RN going for her in that area.
Knowing the way Murphy's law goes, my mother will find something that no matter how often my brothers of I might tell her its not, it is to her.
At least we can content ourselves that she'll be more agreeable over her medical care at that age than her mother.
While I comfort myself that I can play the "its not my mother" card in that department, it makes me wonder what my own mother will be arguing with me years from now. It's rather hard to imagine my mother at 90, but given that her mother is there now, its very likely to happen. Unlike my grandmother, my mother has her full hearing and can understand the doctor when he's explaining what he's prescribing and why. My mother also has the fact that she's an RN going for her in that area.
Knowing the way Murphy's law goes, my mother will find something that no matter how often my brothers of I might tell her its not, it is to her.
At least we can content ourselves that she'll be more agreeable over her medical care at that age than her mother.
