incident at my parents. papa took a walk around and fell i am guessing. it was hours before some samaritan brought him home. he is so weak now. unable to move an inch, unable to focus, and talk as he used to. he's exhibiting very odd behaviour. odd even for him.
i took a few smokes around the corner after a rather depressing epiphany. when i got back. i saw a couple of guys at the gate with papa leaning on to one of them. i knew something happened and hurried. they told me everything. i thanked the guys for bringing papa home. i wish i could have done more like pay for gas. but it dawned on me late the proper etiquette. i slowly walked papa inside giving him bits of encouragement. but i am genuinely worried. i think it is only a matter of time now.
it started a week or 2 ago when the family had lunch at the festival mall to celebrate my brother's birthday. i told mama that we have to prepare for the worst. i strongly feel this is it. i am not sure how i feel about it. i am sure of one thing. i would feel sorry for mama because i know she loves him very much. to us children though, we grew up while he was abroad and so we failed to create that bond.
mama and my sister ruth went to a wedding dinner today at the manila hotel (wow sosyal! joke!! héhé). it was great to see them all made up. i don't get to see them like this everyday.
j'aime bien ma famille .. sigh
i picked up a book isaac asimov robot series. so it should be an interesting read for the next few days at the least. i don't get to read much these past few weeks. but i think i have time again.
i liked his ideas on the distinction between robot-menace and robot-pathos. astroboy would be robot-pathos. while robocop would be robot-menace? héhé. but what about borgs? borgs aren't exactly evil the way we normally think of evil. borgs want to improve the lives of assimilated species. etc ..
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Hey Max, be nice to your Dad
your experience reminded me of a similar incident with my dad when he was still alive. don't think you got to meet him, but a lot of malate and sc peeps knew him coz he was always visiting me in the spo. a very protective dad he was. i thought then it wasn't that cool, but now i know better. well, one time, he was on his way to visit me somewhere in the remedios area where i used to reside. i got a phone call from someone asking for the daughter of someone named prof. alcala. my heart shot up my throat coz i thought of the worse. turned out that he slipped and fell on the road. he hit his head and when he finally made it to my place, there was such a big bump on the side of his head, i wanted to cry. he looked so fragile and old. and he was old. he was 79 at that time, i think. we had lots of daughter-father fights, but that was more because we loved each other fiercely...
if you do feel the worst is coming, i can ony say you ought to tell him everything you want him to know. i was lucky enough to have been able to do that, but still i wish i had told him those things more often...
My father had a stroke also and the good news is that there are good chances for a recovery.
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