Stubborn
People can be pretty stubborn.
Especially senior citizens.
You know how your parents used to tell you to eat all the yucky-but-good-for-you food?
Like vegetables and stuff that make up a balanced meal?
Well try getting a senior citizen who has pride up till there to eat the same kind of stuff.
They DON'T listen. They want to eat what they want and if they don't like it, they don't eat it.
So what happens?? They go for 2 weeks on plain rice and only a few morsels at a time and bam in 2 weeks you get a dehydrated and weak peson who is skin and bones.
Then they need medical attention, a jab or 2, maybe a bottle of sugar or salt forced into their blood stream all because of pride.
It's so frustrating.
My Grandma was the same. She could be alive right now if she had been more humble and embraced a walking stick as help rather than feeling embarrased. She would not have fallen and hit her head. She would not have had a clot in the brain. She would not have suffered a stroke. She would not have been paralysed. She would not have degenerated into a little thing who could not even remember if she had eaten, let alone who her children are. And she would NOT have died so soon.
Now watching my mother-in-law, it is heartbreaking.
One minute she is hale and hearty, the next she is a walking skeleton.
Lord, grant us all love and grace.
Especially senior citizens.
You know how your parents used to tell you to eat all the yucky-but-good-for-you food?
Like vegetables and stuff that make up a balanced meal?
Well try getting a senior citizen who has pride up till there to eat the same kind of stuff.
They DON'T listen. They want to eat what they want and if they don't like it, they don't eat it.
So what happens?? They go for 2 weeks on plain rice and only a few morsels at a time and bam in 2 weeks you get a dehydrated and weak peson who is skin and bones.
Then they need medical attention, a jab or 2, maybe a bottle of sugar or salt forced into their blood stream all because of pride.
It's so frustrating.
My Grandma was the same. She could be alive right now if she had been more humble and embraced a walking stick as help rather than feeling embarrased. She would not have fallen and hit her head. She would not have had a clot in the brain. She would not have suffered a stroke. She would not have been paralysed. She would not have degenerated into a little thing who could not even remember if she had eaten, let alone who her children are. And she would NOT have died so soon.
Now watching my mother-in-law, it is heartbreaking.
One minute she is hale and hearty, the next she is a walking skeleton.
Lord, grant us all love and grace.
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