I saw that there were a lot of grandmothers who used to wear white headband
when they had a headache in the past.
My mother-in-law, who visited New York from LA, has twice the thickness of
my arms and legs. She eats more than I do, but she says she has no taste. She
had a headache from the day she came, after a few days, it was not better, and
so I took her to a Korean pharmacy in Queens.
Pharmacist hinted gently say was that there is no need to worry seems to make a big fuss the usual patience of
Korean mother-in-law. I have no choice but to say, "If you get serious ill
in New York, it'll get complicated," and you have to get your journey back
to LA.
My 93- year-old mother-in-law
wants to come to New York again. "No way. You came here the other time and told
me that you were sick."
" When did I get sick? I do not remember and now I am fine."
"You can’t come
if you come with someone." Eventually,
she gave up on coming to New York.
Is that why? “I have to die soon.” Every
time I call her she says, “I have to die fast.” It makes me difficult. One day I told her “Are you sick? Please take a pill and lie down. I'll hang up the phone." No, It's okay, "the voice grows and bright.
“If you keep saying
that you have to die quickly, no one even call and dislike you. You are old and you cannot be as healthy as you were
when you were young. In the past, when your mother-in-law was sick with a headband, your husband
and you worried and had a hard time.”
And as if it was when I said, “No one is as sick as I am at my age.”
I begin to hear hundreds times of
scenes from the Korean War as if she was spinning old videos. 9.28
On the day Seoul was restored, the basement
of Seoul Station was packed with dead bodies of the North Korean people’s Army,
and the smell of rotting bodies came out of it… and so on.
The third son and his wife live right next door to mother-in-law. The eldest
son, as well as a look into the daily commute and his wife takes care of her. In addition, my father in-law, who was making good
money in his life, comes out of his pension. Oldest daughter husband is a doctor,
sometimes brings sleeping pills and medicines. The youngest daughter is a
devoted to her mother. Why she suffers from insomnia and depression?
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