My parents are getting older, but they refuse to admit it.
I feel so bad for them.
It is hard to watch them struggle to do the things that they once did, but it is reality. My husband has tried so many times to help my dad fix things around the house, but my dad refuses the help because he wants to prove that he can still do everything that he used to be able to do. I have to turn my head away sometimes when my dad is climbing all over the roof or changing light fixtures that are high up in his barn. I think that the truth of his aging may have finally hit him this past Monday. It is June, and he wanted to get his air conditioner out of the attic. Of course, he did not ask for help. He had knee surgery a couple of months ago, and his knee is still not completely healed. Apparently when he was walking down the stairs, his knee gave out, and he fell down an entire flight of stairs. Thankfully, he did not break anything, but his knee may need another surgery now. He did not even care about his knee though. He was just super upset that his air conditioner was broken. I tried to tell him that we could get him another air conditioner, but he was so upset that he got in the car and drove to the store to buy another air conditioner immediately. He could barely walk, but he decided that he needed a new air conditioner right then. I hope that this incident teaches him to ask for help more often.
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