“Kinderlach, when you’re on a mountain, never take the easy way down. Always make your way up.”
We all knew she wouldn’t go to an old age home.
Oma used to tell us about her parents who took their elderly parents into their home as they aged. There was no fuss about it. Nothing to discuss. It was a fact. Part of life’s journey. Part of the give and take.
Babbe Sureh, her paternal grandmother, moved in with her family when she was no longer able to run her household by herself. Oma and her siblings gave away their room to make place for an additional mother figure in their home.
They didn’t leave Babbe Sureh alone for a moment, and treated her with utmost respect. Even at the moment of her passing, she was surrounded by her son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren.
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