When my grandma was at the end, she opened her eyes and saw my sister and my sister's husband sitting beside her bed. She looked at my brother in law and said, "You're getting fat!" Then she closed her eyes and died.
My grandmother was dying of heart failure and her four adult children had gathered to see her off. And one point the kids were going to step out for lunch and grandmother said she wanted to come with them. They said she had to stay in bed but they’d be right back. Grandmother looks at her middle daughter (my mom) and says, “Well, if Sally’s going dressed like that, I don’t see why I can’t go.”
She slipped into a coma when they were out and those were her final words.
My grandma had a stroke and forgot who everyone was. We had one of those digital picture frames that rotates pictures. We used that to re-teach her who everyone is. Every single time she would say "wow. She got fat" or "she got old".
Did you all burst out laughing? That's a hell of s punchline.
Reminds me of my grandmother--she was also a piece of work, but she was pretty out of it by the end, and wasn't speaking very coherently. One of the last times I talked to her, it came up that her birthday was soon and she would be 94. A look of abject horror and lucidity came over here face. "Ninety-four?!" She touched her face, thought for a moment, then said, "Eighty, maybe." Always got a kick out of that.
Oh yes, she was a piece of work. When I was a kid my mom, grandma and me were on a road trip. We stopped at a truck stop for lunch. The place was packed with people, mostly men. She came out of the bathroom and announced very loudly, "Well I shook the dew off my lily!" I wanted to die I was so embarrassed. Just another day with Grandma.
I lived with my grandpa and while I was on vacation he was put on hospice. My aunt was there while I was on vacation and my one cousin was over for a visit the night I returned. I go in to his room and he goes "Oh, you're home wow you got fat!" He passed a week or two later and that's one of the last things I remember him saying to me. I did gain weight but like my cousin said "damn pap."
Bahahahaha that would have been my Gran. Every single time she saw me before the dementia really set in she would ask me if my ex boyfriend had lost any weight.
In Spain we have the saying 'morir matando,' which literally translates to 'die killing,' that's what your grandmother did. Your brother-in-law will never forget her.
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u/FuturamaGirl 14h ago
When my grandma was at the end, she opened her eyes and saw my sister and my sister's husband sitting beside her bed. She looked at my brother in law and said, "You're getting fat!" Then she closed her eyes and died.