Taking care of my grandparents!

 

Every Saturday morning I wake up very early at 6:00 Am with the alarm ringing that is a new day to live and smile as brilliant as the sun and the ringing sound that remind me to go to my grandparent's house.I go to my grandparent's house and it takes me almost thirty minutes to arrive there. All the Saturdays has been the same routine since three years ago and it is the same as now in 2020, "the best years of all". (Okay no)

Nowadays the entire world is  living a difficult situation with the pandemic and the important thing is to stay at home and not go out if it is not necessary in order to stay safe and taking care of ourselves; however,  my grandparents need a person who takes care of them. As a result, since many years ago my mom and my aunts had organized a single day looking after of them during the week and weekend, the whole day and night, "24/7".

Besides, three years ago in 2017  seeing that there are not enough sons and daughters. I decided to participate in this great labor of helping to my grandparents' care.  I take care of them only Saturdays. It is because I decided the day: "Saturday" in the organized schedule that my aunts and uncles have. While in 2018, I started to study in the University of El Salvador (UES) and all my classes had been only during the week and not on Saturdays nor Sunday. So that, I  really thought that was a great idea had took the Saturday days. Even though, nowadays studying online implies more work and time being spent advancing with my homeworks,including my Sundays, I´m always spending my Saturdays with my grandparents.

The whole day with my grandparents is not as simple as saying it! 

My grandpa and grandma has different illness and both need affection and good treatment. My grandpa is 86, his name is Catarino and let me say that  he is in a better condition and more patience than my grandma, but both has different difficulties. My grandpa has his eyes good, he can move her body by himself while with his ears; he surely can't hear you very well. While talking, people need to say the things with patient and carefully when staying near to him and if someone is talking to him far away the person needs to loud the tone of voice to be listened by him.

 My grandma is 84, her name is Marta, she is not very patient and the things she says has to do it rapidly. So, people need to pay careful attention to her needs, the preferences she has (including her favorite place to stay sitting down in the wheelchair) and the dislikes she has when eating something, it is very important to cook the food she likes.She can't move her by herself. She needs to be moved by another person, because has walking difficulties. It is difficult to give her a shower, to go to the bathroom with her (because she heat the pampers), it is also difficult to move her to her wheelchair or to her bed (her weight is more than mine). However, when staying there I try to give my best, have a lot of patience and give at them my attention like a nurse with two kids.