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When I was about eight years old my family found out that my grandfather had Alzheimer's, and from that point on everything just went downhill. Unfortunately from then on Islowly watched my grandfather fade away, each year just little by little. By about the age of ten, I took on an amount of responsibility that no kid that age should have to deal with. Every Sunday I would go to church with my grandparents which was getting progressively harder do to my grandfather's condition, when my grandmother would go and sing up on the stage with the choir so I would have to sit in the pew and keep an eye on my grandfather and make sure he didn't wander off. When he needed to go to the bathroom, I had had to help him, When he wanted to go down the stairs I had to make sure he went down the elevator. Over the next year unfortunately things got much worse, Early on that year it got to the point that he just had to stay home because he would get so angry and confused when we had to help him do things. Around May of 2012 though things got even worse, my grandmother had taken my grandfather to the doctor because his legs were swollen, and after that the doctor rushed them to the hospital because the fact that he most likely had a blood clot in his legs. After doing a ct scan the doctor at the hospital told my grandmother that he would have to stay in the hospital for several months for observation. well, during that time at the hospital part of the blood clot had broken off and gone to his lungs, causing him to not be able to breath properly causing him to have a stroke. After the stroke life judst became depressing, it had gotten to the point where he could no longer talk, no longer walk, it had gotten to the point where he couldn't do anything anymore. Me and my grandmother had to feed my grandfather, I had to help change his diapers, I felt like
I couldn't go on anymore because I had been so close to him when I was young. So my grandmother had to end up putting him in Hughes Home in downtown Fredericksburg, and he been there since then.