Getting Old

Great. Now my grandfather needs a pacemaker. Actually, he has a pacemaker. They just put it in this morning. He seems to be doing well, thank God. But yesterday, when the doctor and then my aunt and mom tried explaining to him that he needed one and what it was for, he didn't understand. He deteriorates as the day goes on. He forgets. When my mom and aunt went to the hospital yesterday, they asked him where he was, and he said, "Here." So they then asked him where "here" was, and he couldn't answer them. He didn't know. When they told him he was in the hospital, he then knew something was wrong, but he couldn't remember. He doesn't even always remember names, including his children's names sometimes. It's so hard to see him like this. He's so old. This used to be a man who was so with it, so together, and now, now he's not. I know it has to do a lot with age, but knowing that doesn't make it easier to see him like this.