• Funny, is your grandfather my grandfather? My uncle is a huge maga head and my grandfather (just turned 90) gives him shit over it all the time. My kids got to see him for his birthday and he loves seeing them. He’s hard of hearing but man hell talk your ear off. He knows everything going on in his town. Still talking shit about his 90+ yo neighbors. Loves talking shit about Republicans. He’s going in for surgery soon. First a valve replacement, but that’s so he can get his hip replaced. Which might be bad for all of us because his hip is the only thing stopping him from being an independent man about town right now.

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      They sound very similar. My grandpa actually lived alone until last year when he decided at 96 to go into a home. He still drive into town and got the paper everyday to talk to people and see what was going on.

      At the end of 2022 he caught COVID and I took him into hospital. We realised he hadn’t been to hospital for anything serious since a minor heart attack back in like 2007. He’s not the sort to be obsessed with health and living forever, it seems like he’s been lucky enough to not have anything go wrong.