They Carried Him

"What time am I picking you up from the airport" my sister asked?

After the details had been arranged she mentioned that our mom and aunt had kidnapped Granddaddy from the nursing home.

She was being a little dramatic. They had simply decided to remove my grandfather from the nursing home he had been checked into one day prior and take him home.

I picture the two of them sitting in my grandfather's room, both with the same thought. They turn to face one another and without even speaking they take their places on each side of his bed lifting him up and into his wheelchair. I imagine it like a scene that Pedro Almodovar could have directed. The two sisters able to lift their father only because of his recent and significant weight loss.

They knew he would be more comfortable at home. This dingy nursing home was no place for Jim Daniel.