Currently, my mother who will be 98 years old next month, (May) is living in my home and can not leave her bed, she depends on me for everything.
Before she fell this year between Christmas and New Year, she was able to walk, work her search a word books, watch T.V. mainly Lawerence Welk and any like shows. However since her fall, she lost interest in these things, her eye sight has gone down hill, but she is in good spirits and barely complains about anything. She seems to have vivid dreams these days, and thinks they are real, yesterday when she awoke she insisted that someone came into her room to tell her to get ready to receive Holy Communion from the priest. She wanted her head covering and was upset when I brought her breakfast, telling me, "why are you giving me food, I must fast now". (it must have been a dream, because Father always calls first). She is always fingering her rosary. She never asks for food, but will usually eat it when I bring it to her. I often wonder about her, and what is going through her mind, since she is also almost deaf making it difficult to sit and talk to her. The grandchildren come in once in awhile and sing to her, also the nuns from Mount St. Michael come in and sing to her occasionally, then she gives them a big smile.
She can't even move or turn herself in bed, and depends on myself to turn her from side to side. My daily prayer is that I will not live as long as she, but that I will outlive her, because I worry what will happen if I should die before her.