Becoming, a Gentler, Caretaker

From the perspectives, of a bystander, who may NOT know the whole story, translated…

“Didn’t you cry of aches and pains a lot at home?  How come the moment we’re in the hospital, it’s, all gone away?”, in the waiting areas, a middle-aged man started screaming loud toward the elderly sitting in the wheelchair, I’m guessing, that they must be, father and son.  As the light blinked on, the elderly was insistent, refusing to enter, the man used the gentler voices to coax him in, and he’d, started, screaming at the elderly, none of it worked.  In the end, the man can only, wheel the elderly off, and mumbled incessantly, “when you feel pain at home, I won’t take you here again!”

Then, suddenly, I’d remembered how I hated the medications when I fell ill as a child, and my parents strained their minds over this, coaxing, using love, threats, or offering me the incentives, I just, refused, to take my medications, and, my parents got really angered, and also stated, “we won’t be bothered by you if you don’t feel well again!”

But, the parents won’t leave their young in illness, I still recalled, on in the late hours of the nights, my parents hurried to the freezers, took out that ice pack, placed it under my head, wiped away the cold sweats I was sweating out, only because I’d, refused, to take my medications as scheduled.

The developments of the roles of parents and children, will intersect somewhere in life, the caretakers and the taken care of, will switch.  Knowing, and accepting that our parents are aging by the day, it’s, a sad process, but, everybody has to, face it eventually, I just hope, that as the roles are, switched, you can think of how gently your parents treated you, and use the same methods, to treat them now that they’re, elderly too.

This just showed, how uneven the giving of parents to children became as the roles are, switched, and, it’s only natural, because NONE of us asked to be brought out of our mothers’ VAGINAS, and we were, mistreated by our own parents, and so, you still can’t blame it on your children, for NOT treating you kind, because, you were the ones, to have done them wrong at one time in their lives, but in the above case, the man is just, probably, getting annoyed, at how his father was, faking his illness, and the elderly may just want a little more attention from his own son, that’s why he fell ill, and got taken to the hospital, it happens you know???