The Change.

Remember I had spoken about my grandpa walking to the shop? Everyday! At about 13:00pm-14:00pm? Yeah, well, That slowly changed. We noticed he wasn't getting ready to go to the shop and normally if he didn't feel like going we would just get the newspapers for him. Although when it got to this point we never knew if he had gone or not and when we would ask why aren't you going to the shop today he either said he will go now or his foot was sore or "I'll go tomorrow". This was maybe every 2-3 days but it started becoming everyday and we put down to his foot being sore. Trying to see what was wrong with it wasa different story but by the time we got to look at his foot it was apparently fine... 

One day, The shop was no longer in his routine. Just stopped.

In a way we were grateful that he stopped on his own so that we didn't have to stop him but it was a little sad that he didn't get out as much any more!Plus! Because we work from home the main gate is sometimes still locked and the problem was he never noticed that and would try open the gate continuously and almost burn out the motor. Obviously we would rush out to prevent that from happening. I forgot to mention that obviously having a car, why didn't he drive? Well, two days after my grandpa had moved in, they somehow stole his little white Ford Lazer out the gate and barely noticed. In a way that was a blessing in disguise too! Can you imagine if he was still driving? Mmmmm. 

Anyway, he was doing okay around the house, Until he decided that he needed money for what reason, we don't know and that he banks with \Standard Bank... He banked with Standard Bank about 40 years ago and for some reason still thinks he does. He would tell us he's going to walk up to the bank and we would say there is no bank anywhere near here but of course he knew better. Although he never went or found the bank and forgot he had even asked about it. It got a bit frustrating because he asked maybe 3 times a day about the bank up the road that didn't exist and you feel like you are going insane repeating yourself telling him there isn't. Yes, people say you must just go with it but you cannot hold patience for that long especially when you are trying to work.

This was the change of life we were about to dive into.

from here on it will be about how he has been in just the last four years but in short. This will soon become a diary. You cant imagine the type of things they see or think about.

Till next time,

Cait xx