Lin Yong, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, was taken home by Lin Guodong and his wife.
His memory is inconsistent; he often mistakes Zhang Jiao for Li Shuping, Junjun for Lin Jianshe, and sometimes he even calls Lin Guodong "Dad."
The people in the compound were quite saddened to learn that Lin Yong had contracted such an illness.
Lin Guodong and Zhang Jiao both have to work and don't have time to stay home to take care of him.
To prevent him from cooking alone at home and burning the house down.
Lin Guodong then gave Xiaochun's mother money so that she could deliver lunch to Lin Yong every day at noon.
After a while, Lin Yong started to lose his sense of direction. He often couldn't find his way home after going out, and people who knew him would find him and take him back.
That day, Lin Guodong came home from get off work and waited until it was time for dinner, but Lin Yong hadn't returned. He hurriedly went out to look for him and finally found him in a garbage dump two streets away.
Seeing his own father huddled pitifully in the garbage heap, Lin Guodong felt extremely distressed. After taking the man home, he took him to a public bathhouse to bathe.
"Dad, what did you go out for today?" Lin Guodong asked, rubbing Lin Yong's back.
Lin Yong said, "I only bought candied hawthorns for you and Jianshe, not for Xiaoyu. Go buy some for Xiaoyu."
Upon hearing this, Lin Guodong paused for a moment, then whispered, "Xiaoyu no longer needs you to buy her candied hawthorns."
She no longer needs her father to buy her candied hawthorns, nor does she need him as her older brother.
"Xiaoyu loves candied hawthorn berries, she loves candied hawthorn berries..."
Lin Yong kept repeating this sentence.
Lin Yong's condition progressed rapidly; in just one day, he reached a point where he could no longer recognize people and was incontinent.
Every day after get off work, Zhang Jiao has to wash pants stained with feces and urine when she gets home, and she's on the verge of a breakdown.
That day, Zhang Jiao was in Lin Yong's room changing the blankets he had wet with urine. Lin Yong was standing at the door when he suddenly pounced on her onto the bed.
He kept calling out, "Shuping, Shuping..."
Its mouth was nuzzling and probing inside Zhang Jiao's neck.
"Lin Guodong, Lin Guodong!" Zhang Jiao cried out in fright.
Upon hearing the noise, Lin Guodong rushed into the house and pulled his father away.
Lin Yong was suddenly pulled away and fell to the ground with a thud, losing his balance.
Zhang Jiao, clutching her clothes, climbed out of bed and looked at Lin Guodong, crying, "Lin Guodong, I can't live like this anymore."
Lin Guodong also felt a headache coming on. He grabbed his hair and shouted at his father on the ground, "Dad, look carefully, this is your daughter-in-law Zhang Jiao, not your mother Li Shuping."
He used to just mistake Zhang Jiao for his mother, but now not only has he made a mistake, he's also going to force Zhang Jiao onto the bed to do *that*.
This is because he was home in time to stop it; what if he wasn't home?
"Shuping, Shuping is in pain, she's in pain..." Lin Yong shouted, stretching out his hands towards Zhang Jiao.
Zhang Jiao blushed with anger, cursed "You old geezer!" and ran out of the room.
After this incident, Lin Guodong and Zhang Jiao discussed it and decided to send Lin Yong to a nursing home.
The nursing home costs 88 yuan a month, which is just enough to cover Lin Yong's retirement pension.
Regarding sending Lin Yong to a nursing home, Lin Guodong specifically went to discuss it with Lin Jianshe. Lin Jianshe simply said, "He only recognizes you, Lin Guodong, as his son, and he has already spent all the money on you. There's no need for him to cause any trouble."
And so, Lin Yong was sent to a nursing home.
Lin Yong was not used to living in the nursing home and always liked to run around, either to find his daughter Lin Xiaoyu or his wife Li Shuping.
It's giving the nursing home staff quite a headache; when he runs around, the only thing they can do is tie him to the bed.
That day, Lin Yong and everyone watched TV together. It was an interview program featuring a famous female entrepreneur from Beijing.
Upon seeing the person on TV, Lin Yong stood up excitedly and pointed at the person on TV, saying, "Shuping, Shuping, my daughter-in-law Shuping."
The caregiver slammed her hand on the table. "Quiet down! What do you mean, 'your wife Shuping'? That's Li Yunshu, a well-known female entrepreneur in Beijing. Her husband is the director of the Public Security Bureau. What does that have to do with your wife?"
“Shuping is Shuping, my wife. Shuping, come out, let’s go home together.” Lin Yong walked to the TV and patted it with his finger.
The caregivers, fearing he would break the television, quickly pulled him away.
"Let go, Shuping, Shuping..."
Lin Yong struggled with his fist.
The caregiver said, "Since he doesn't want to watch TV, let's drag him back to his room and tie him up so he doesn't disturb everyone."
Lin Yong was dragged back to his room by several caregivers and tied to the bed. Worried that he would shout and disturb others, the caregivers even thoughtfully stuffed a piece of cloth into his mouth.
Lin Guodong would visit Lin Yongdong at the nursing home once every two weeks. Every time they met, Lin Yongdong would cry and beg Lin Guodong to take him back, saying that someone at the nursing home had beaten him.
Lin Guodong confronted the staff at the nursing home, who said they hadn't hit Lin Yong, but that he was often uncooperative, and for safety reasons, they had no choice but to take some tougher measures.
The nursing home staff also said that it would be too troublesome to care for an abnormal elderly person like Lin Yongdong, and that they did not want to take in such a patient. They offered to refund the money and let Lin Guodong take the person home.
Since everyone at the nursing home had said that, Lin Guodong naturally couldn't say anything more. Although he didn't want his father to suffer in the nursing home, he also didn't want to bring his father home and make a mess of their family life.
It's so easy not having to take care of an elderly person with dementia.
After sending his father to a nursing home, he felt he was finally living a normal life.
In a double room at the nursing home, as soon as the caregiver opened the door, she smelled a strong stench of feces and wrinkled her nose, calling out, "Old Mr. Lin in bed number 32 has had diarrhea again."
"He had diarrhea again? I just changed his sheets and blankets this morning." Another caregiver walked into the room looking annoyed.
Looking at Lin Yong on the bed, she said, "You're not mute, can't you just say so if you need to poop? I changed your sheets and blankets and you've soiled them again."
The first caregiver to arrive said, "He has mental problems and can't control his bowel movements. Talking to him won't help."
Lin Yong lay on the bed with a blank stare, looking much thinner and with all his hair turned white.
"Shuping, I feel so bad..."
The caregiver said irritably, "If you know it's uncomfortable to sleep in poop and pee, then don't poop on the bed."
"Forget it, let's just change it for him quickly."
"Change what? No way." The caregiver said firmly, "Let him sleep in his own excrement, he won't learn his lesson."
"..."
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