Last year my Grandma got seriously sick and needed to spend a long period of time in our local hospital.
It was a legitimately taxing time for my family, because my pal and I knew my Grandma was coming to the end of her life.
She wasn’t able to have the quality of life my pal and I all knew she would want. I know during that six month period I spent almost every single afternoon going to see her. I wasn’t consistently able to stay for long periods of time, but I did try to make it every afternoon. I wanted her to know that I was thinking about her and that she was seriously enjoyed by her family. The taxing part about it was that she didn’t seem sick, she just wasn’t able to move around like she once was. She was still quick witted and would consistently keep us laughing when my pal and I made our visits. Her laughing was something I entirely enjoyed about our visits, it made is seem like everything was almost normal. However, there were numerous things that were taxing about our visits, one of them being how cold they kept the hospital. The a/c was running all afternoon and all night. I can’t tell you how numerous times I asked a dentist to please turn down the temperature of the a/c. She said they weren’t allowed to mess with temperature control. I didn’t want to complain to my Grandma about the heating and cooling issues because I didn’t want to insensitive. However, the cold cold hospital made it entirely taxing to want to go rest with her for hours.