The Walk of Life

My apologies folks for the long absence since mid-November! Firstly I was terribly busy with visiting foreign relatives like my niece Joy and her family. Jay was back from NZ for his best friend wedding and since Jay and his cousin from the US whom he had not met for about 13 years, there was much to catch-up on!

There were the usual food trips to Joy's past favourites plus local short trips around! The most wonderful thing was our trip to Genting where Joy's kids went for all the rides and me and my brother-in-law tried our luck at the Casino and each of us won over a thousand bucks in just an hour!!!! It help to pay for all the trips and food!

Well, we have an auntie in her late 60's and all these years she was on medication to keep her mind clear! Of late she just refused to take her medication and now she is a problem to everyone! The responsibility was upon me (by popular votes in the family) to take Evie in and supervise her medication until she re-gain her composure!!! Wow! It was difficult for me to turn down since in reality none has the time to do that! In many ways neither do I have the luxury of time but at least I don't have a 9 to 5 job and most of the time I stay at home. Guess they think a full-time home care-giver is quite free! :)!

Anyway, I accepted the task and to my horror, the trip to the hospital to get her doctor check-up Evie, prescribed her the medication etc was such a harrowing experience. It was like handling a kid of 5 who wanted to run away from his first day at school!!!! Evie really did not want to go to the hospital and each and every opportunity she tried to run away from the hospital! I had to go round to hunt her down and once I caught her trying to thumb a lift from strangers!!! In addition to that I had to convince/argue with her numerous times why it was necessary for her to see the doctor!

In her current mental condition, I have to ignore most of her requests as well as remarks. Even when staying with us I had to suffer the incessant droning when Evie related to me her sad stories whole day long! Most of the stories were the bad ones and I guess that's why she became like this! When someone does not want to let go of the negative things in the past it drives you nuts!!! I pray and hope Evie gets back to her stable self soon or else it would be my turn to go bananas!!!!! It seems that according to the doctor, the medicine will take effect after a week!!!! Today is a week but there is still no signs of recovery!!!!! I am praying for a miracle too!