They were genuinely interested, my parents. I said that on the advice of the GP assistant – and my wife had insisted on this for some time – I took vitamin D.
A pill a week, for a better body balance and a less burdened mind, so that would be good for them too and I nodded to my father: ,, Veural for that .”
Like me, he has a talent for gloom. Also for not listening, but to my surprise my sister texted a few days later that she had ordered Vitamin E for my parents. Or that came from me.
I replied: ‘Haha, yes, I only meant D. I thought: of course that goes in one ear and out the other. It’s special that they remember this.’
Zus wrote that vitamin E was also good: slowed down the ‘softening’ of the brain, among other things. So no superfluous luxury.
At my parents’ table it is a lot about what is or is not good. They are both over 80, physically still quite good, mentally ‘it’s getting less’, they say themselves and to keep it up as long as possible they pay attention to food and drink and limit the drink.
,, Who drink more in the evening ”, Dad had decided, ,, else become who alcoholics .”
That wouldn’t be too bad, I countered, a beer or herbal bitters wouldn’t hurt. We, at our age, had to pay attention to that, but they were old. ,, If you enter above eighty, that is not so much more. Joe go at it anyway .”