I really don't want to bother anyone with this, but I've been thinking about this all I day and I need it to get off my chest somehow. So I apologize in advance.
My grandmother is sick. She had a stroke 6 years ago, and she's never been really the same since. Recently she's had a second stroke, and things just got so much worse. The thing is, the strokes haven't affected her physically, she can walk and talk just fine. But they have however affected her personality. She gets VERY aggressive and god only knows how many times she has attacked my grandfather. Unfortunately he still loves her more than anything in his life so he keeps it to himself and whenever he has bruices on his arms he just tells us he walked against a closet or something. You get the idea.
Unfortunately for us she is still a very smart and manipulative woman. She can act perfectly normal around us but when she's alone with my grandfather she can just as easily turn into a crazy old woman. The second stroke has however made it more difficult for her to act normal all the time so now she has been aggressive to other people, including my father and sister. Today they went to see her to get a shopping list or something, and they kind of walked in at the wrong moment. My grandfather was standing outside the house when my father and sister arrived, and he told them "it was that time again". So they walked in the house and found my grandmother confused and angry. My sister couldn't help but to tell my grandmother to calm down a bit but then my grandmother started screaming and she threw whatever she could find at my sister. Naturally my father protected her and started screaming "not my child!" So then my grandmother attacked my father and she wanted to hit him in the face, but he grabbed both her arms before she was able to. That did not stop her though, because she bit him in his arm. It's ridiculous.
After that scene my father called my aunt and explained everything. Unfortunately, my aunt thinks just like my grandfather and she thinks there's nothing to do about it and she just wants to let things cool off. Apparently my grandmother had called her a moment before that to tell her that my father had attacked her, which was obviously not true. So it seems like my grandmother wants to turn her children against each other. My father doesn't want that to happen obviously so he agrees with my aunt and they're not doing anything about it. Which makes me feel very bad for my grandfather because I think there's a very good chance that my grandmother is able to kill him when she's losing it.
So yeah, a lot of drama around here. I've pretty much accepted that my grandmother is gone forever and she ain't coming back. But I don't want to do nothing because my grandfather doesn't deserve to live his last years like this. But I'm just the granchild so I can't do anything about it. I just know that if my parents ever become like that I would handle things way differently.
Anyways, that's my rant. I just needed to write it down somewhere, it sure has made me feel a bit better. If you've made it this far, thanks for your time.
