Last night’s visit to grandma, delivered nutritious food and reminded her about supplements
Late yesterday aftenoon I visited my grandmother in Makati. She was on her wheel chair watching a big television set with some star talk or the buzz television show…. you know, the usual nonsense about the lives of movie and tv stars… why should I care? Well some people like my grandmother have nothing better to do because she is incapable of doing anything. She is still strong enough to push buttons on her remote control.
I checked went to her to replenish supplies. I delivered fresh 15 coconuts for her hydration, yellow sweet potatoes which should be more nutritious than rice, various green leafy vegetables including celery for her magnesium, and guavas for vitamin c.
Oh she’s got lots of excuses. She is a terribly difficult patient. No wonder she’s sick. I told her to move out the refrigerators in her room, and they are still there.
She did not take any one of the green supplements I left with her. Not a single one. Not Dr. Tam’s Live Green, not one of the barley grass, not one of the spirulina supplements. She didn’t take the gingko biloba supplements that is supposed to increase blood flow without the strong taste of the cayenne tincture. I wrote down the things she is supposed to be taking. 4 tablets of the gingko biloba and up to 15 tablets of the spirulina. Alternate the live green and the barley whatever she feels like during snacks. I even gave her my bottle of green honey. I’ll make a bet she won’t take any of it.
She then tells me her cholesterol myth about eggs. I said whatever makes you happy. If you believe so much in the cholesterol myth, then fine. It’s a placebo effect. Placebo is good up to a point. Hope that makes it work for her.
She then says to me I need to gain weight. She likes it when my face is puffed up. Duh… yeah for a long time I was 150 to 168 lbs and that is her idea of me looking good. I said I’m gaining weight. Sure and steady 2 lbs per month. Just be patient. You will see. My brother is obese at 135 lbs today. What was I at 168 lbs? Super duper obese?
It is good to have discussions with her. I remember when my grandfather was old and almost dying nobody was visiting him or talking to him. That wasn’t good.
The carrot I lay out on my grandma is for her to be able to attend my brother’s wedding on February 2009 walking on her own 2 feet. She says she now sees her left leg is shorter than her right. Something a chiropractor should see, but she doesn’t want a chiropractor so i will send her to a hilot (filipino version) next time.