grandma

my great grandmother just turned 89 last friday. i went up to the nursing home she is at and she was asleep when i got here. she helped raise me and my brother since we were born. she always had a certain lament for the world but loved nothing more than her family. in a year, i watched dementia and medication change her into a different person. she is not the woman i grew up knowing my whole life and it is really sad. but i know when she sees me, even though my visits have been few lately, i know when she sees me, she smiles on the inside.

dustin