Hiya, now it´s Jackie´s turn. And you know, her grandpa have got Alzheimer's disease, and in that episode when Jackie and Tracy tries to "rescue " him, from that home he´s living at, he calls Jackie "Norma" all the time. Well well, enough of nonsense. I´m starting.
Jackie Hopper
"Come on grandpa, we have a time at the doctor´s today. Remember?"
"We have?" Jack Hopper asked his granddaughter.
"Yes, we have. And we´ve gotta get you dressed." Jackie went to the wardrobe and picked out a pair of trousers, a t-shirt and a jacket.
"Come on now, grandpa. Go and get yourself dressed." She gave Jack the clothes, and he went to the bathroom. Jackie started to clean the bed.
"Sometimes I wish this was over." She thought. ".it´s hard to remember it all for him." The second after, she regretted that she thought like that, she loved her grandpa, and would never leave him.
At the doctor´s
"Did you hear that Norma? The doctor said there´s nothing wrong with my heart or lungs." Jack said proudly.
"Yes grandpa, I heard that. But my name´s still not Norma, it´s Jackie remember?"
"Oh, yes. How silly of me… but, then who´s Norma."
"Norma´s my mum. And your daughter."
"Aren´t you my only daughter?"
"No grandpa, I´m your granddaughter Jackie. Norma´s dead. Remember?"
"Dead… but… when?"
"She died almost ten years ago."
"Yeah, yeah, now I remember. She drowned didn´t she?" Jackie face- palmed herself.
"No grandpa, that was your wife. She and my dad died in a car crash."
"Who did?"
"My parents, your daughter and her husband. Norma and Jean remember?"
"Yeah, yeah now I remember. But… if Norma died. Who are you?" Jackie sighed and face- palmed again, and then started it again. Everything, while the doctor was sitting in the same room. Writing something in Jack´s journal. They thought, really, he listened to Jackie´s and Jack´s discussion, with a thoughtful expression on his face, but of course. Jackie couldn´t see that.
Half an hour later.
"Jackie isn´t it right?" The doctor asked.
"Yeah,"
"Can I talk to you outside for a minute?"
"Sure," Jackie stood up and followed the doctor outside the door.
"Listen" he said. "I can´t find anything not normal on your granddad´s heart or lungs. But that he forgets your name and call you by your dead mother´s name instead is worrying."
"Why?"
"I think your granddad have got Alzheimer´s disease. That´s a disease that makes people lose their memory, often like until thirty or forty years back in time."
"What do you mean?"
"I think, that maybe we should move your granddad to a place where they can take care of him in the right way."
"But I take care of him."
" Yes I know you do, but to take care of someone with Alzheimer´s takes special education. I´m so sorry."
"You´re going to take him away from me?" Jackie almost whispered. "And leave me all alone."
"Actually. I´ve got a very close friend that work in a sort of care home for kids. In a place called Stowey House,"
"I´m not living in a care home," Jackie screamed. "You can´t make me." She turned around, and ran down the stairs. Then outside, the fastest she could. And she was fast. She ran down the road, and across another, when she suddenly slipped and fell to the ground. Then she could feel a hand on her shoulder, she looked up and saw a police- woman stand there.
"Are you hurt sweetheart?" the woman asked Jackie shook her head, with tears streaming down her face.
"Then let´s find out what happened to you." The woman helped Jackie to stand up.
One week later.
Jackie took her running- medal, and putted it in a round box, then she took her rucksack, and walked after the woman, Elaine or whatever was her name, out to the car.
"It doesn´t make sense," Jackie thought to herself. "I´m not staying in that care home anyway."
