Above the elderly

Author: Wang Jingang
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: "As we grow older, our parents grow smaller." The author comes from a family where both parents are ill, leaving no time for their own career. Their life now revolves around caring for their parents' daily needs and medical treatment. The sick parents are unreasonable, making baseless suspicions and doubts, plunging the entire family into an abnormal state. The author recounts their personal experiences over the years in detail, pouring out their emotions entirely, presenting readers with a genuine yet complex emotional journey filled with both bitterness and resentment, as well as understanding and vigilance. This sparks readers' reflections on life, responsibility, the current state of elderly care, and the healthcare system.
I carefully wiped my mother's body with warm water, cleaning the stains of blood left on her lips after vomiting. Every movement was done with utmost respect, from the bottom of my heart. "Mom, let's get dressed—" "Mom, let's put on socks—" "Mom—" I whispered as I dressed her. My mother lay in my arms, allowing me to move her without any reaction. I combed her messy white hair one last time before I couldn't hold back any longer. Tears fell onto my mother's face. Past memories. Heaven and earth.
Chapter Home
Father sat in the front seat, while I sat in the back. In the evening, streetlights flashed past the window as I looked up and saw my father's white hair. For the first time, I realized how old my father had become—I was probably under 70 then. I silently calculated that if my father could live for another ten years, it would only be 3,650 days, or 87,600 hours—this was all the time I would have with my father. Thinking this way, I couldn't help but tear up.
Chapter Lonely Garden
"As we grow older, our parents grow smaller." The author lives in a family with sick parents, leaving no time for their own career. Their life now revolves around caring for their parents' daily needs and medical treatment. The sick father is unreasonable, making baseless suspicions and doubts, plunging the entire family into an abnormal state. The author recounts their personal experiences over the years in detail, pouring out their emotions entirely, presenting readers with a genuine yet complex emotional journey filled with both bitterness and resentment, as well as understanding and vigilance. This sparks readers' reflections on life, responsibility, the current state of elderly care, and the healthcare system.