(376) died of cancer and Alzheimer’s [読書感想]
Another book reminded me of my father who had
died last year. India Knight wrote the book, its title is “On Shopping”. The
author’s father died of cancer and Alzheimer’s. My father was the same. My
father had to changed hospitals. There were no more treatments to him. Other
younger patients were waiting to be hospitalized in that hospital. So he had to
leave the hospital and searched for an old people’s special hospital.
Fortunately we found that kind of hospital. He stopped eating and only sleeping
in bed near the end of his life, soon passed away quietly. Cherry blossoms were
in full bloom outside the window.
On Shopping INDIA KNIGHT
When I last saw my father, in an old people’s
home in the Ardennes, he was dying of cancer and
Alzheimer’s. He was extremely badly dressed, in a
horrible sweatshirt and floppy trousers ― and the
adult nappy had never been part of his repertoire
before. He was completely gaga. I went outside
and smoked twenty cigarettes and sobbed away to
myself, and then I gave the nurse money to buy
him decent clothes that fitted him. She said that
his clothes were freshly laundered every day and
that he didn’t mind what he wore. I did Vole-Stoat:
my mother’s daughter, as well as my pink-and-
lavender-shirted father’s. When he died and I
collected his things, there were two crisp new
shirts, a new navy cardigan and two new pairs of
brown cords in his wardrobe. And on his dressing
table, there was a picture of me peering out
grumpily in a canary-yellow anorack
in an old people’s home〈英〉老人ホーム、高齢者福祉施設
be dying of cancer and Alzheimer’s
sweatshirtスエットシャツ、スウェットシャツ、トレーナー、プルオーバー
floppy trousersだらりと垂れたズボン
adult nappy大人用のおむつ
gaga、〔高齢者などが〕ぼけた
sob away to myself ？ ひとりきりで泣き続けた
decent clothes見苦しくない、ちゃんとしている服
Vole-Stoat ？？ハタネズミ―オコジョ
navy cardigan濃紺のカーディガン
cordsコーデュロイパンツ
dressing table〔鏡と引き出しが付いた〕化粧台
peer outを覗く
grumpily不機嫌そうに
anorack登山やスキーなどで着るフードつきの防寒・防風用の上着
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