Children are always children. Even if they have long been retired.
“Well maaamaaaa,” I roll my eyes when Mom asks if I’m dressed warmly enough. My mother is 70 years old. I am, respectively, slightly over 30.
“Well, what do you want, for me you are always a child,” says my mother and, as if in between times, makes sure that I do not forget to take my gloves.
Yes, mom is not about age. It’s forever. Ada Keating is well aware of this. She turned 98 this year. The woman had four children. The youngest girl, Janet, died when she was only 13 years old. The rest of the children grew up, learned, and created their own families. Except one. Ada’s son Tom remained a loner. All his life he worked as a decorator, but he never started a family. Therefore, there was no one to take care of him when it became very difficult for Tom to cope with household chores. An 80-year-old man was forced to move to a nursing home.
“My son needs care. So I have to be there, ”Ada decided. I decided – I packed my things and moved to the same nursing home in a room next door.
House employees say that mom and son are just inseparable. They play board games, love watching TV shows together.
“Every day I say to Tom: ‘Good night’, every morning I first go to him and wish him good morning,” the newspaper quotes Ada. … The woman, by the way, has worked as a visiting nurse all her life, so she knows a lot about caring for the elderly. – When I go to the hairdresser, he is waiting for me. And she will definitely hug me when I return. “
Tom is also happy with everything. “I am very glad that my mother now lives here. She really cares about me. Sometimes he even shakes his finger and tells him to behave, ”laughs Tom.
“Ada and Tom have such a touching relationship. In general, you rarely see a mother and a child in the same nursing home. Therefore, we try to do everything to make them comfortable. And we are glad that they like it here, ”said the manager of the house where the mother and son live.
By the way, the couple is not at all alone. They are constantly visited by the daughters of Ada – sisters Tom, Barbara and Margie. And together with them the grandchildren of Ada come to visit the old people.
“You can’t stop being a mom,” says Ada.
“They are inseparable,” says staff at the care home.