Hi I am almost 44yrs. My parents are still in great health and have regular exercise. My granmom is 92 yrs and exercises 3 times a week. She is very good health for her age. She wears hearing aids. I feel so lucky that I my age I still have a grandparent. She is going to spend a week with us very soon. She is awesome!!! She helps me make dinner when she visits,goes to the gym with me. We love when she visits.
Yep. My biological granddad is still alive but no he is not in good health. My stepgrandmother (all of my life) and my bio grandmother are both alive and in decent health.
My husband has a great grandmother still alive! She is 100 and if you ask her she has ben dying for 30 years now. Oh I am 31.
My dad's dad is still alive. He is not in great health, but he still gets around.
We unfortunately, do not have a very good relationship.
And his MIL, my dad's mom's mom is still alive.
She is 104 and it was recently discovered she is in very poor health. :(
She lives several states away and is practically deaf.
We don't have much contact.
I'm 32.
My grandmother is still alive at 89 - though to hear her tell it, she's expecting to die any day now, what with the diabetes and her bad heart, and did I mention the broken hip that never did heal right? She even wrote her obituary already (she doesn't trust us to get it right). Although, she's been saying this for 15 years now, and I personally believe she'll be around for a while yet, by sheer force of will - as long as she has advice to give! She complains a lot, and she's pretty frail, but she also might be one of the strongest women I've ever met.
My husband's grandmother just turned 85 in November. She has a very active life in the retirement community she lives in - in fact, even though she is nearly completely blind now, she has a more active social life than I do. (I believe she and her friends are going to dinner and a concert next week!) She intends to be with us for a while, too - she wouldn't let us throw a big party for her birthday, because she was "only turning 85." The real celebration comes at 90, according to the custom in her social group right now.
I am lucky in that I knew all my grandparents. Only one is still living, though. But he is in good health thankfully.
However, I do have a great-aunt (my grandfather's sister) that is still living and just turned 105 years old last year. Amazing, huh? She doesn't have any real health problems other than she can't see or hear well at all. Everyone thinks they want to live a long time, but I'm not so sure. All of my great-aunt's children and some of her grandchildren have died before her. It makes me realize that living a long time is not always as good as it sounds.
I'm 37. My 86 year old grandma is doing great! She gardens and still gets commission work for her paintings. She is dating a 55 year old man (younger than my father) and has been for about three or four years now. She still drives and travels four hours a week to see her boyfriend. My 83 year old granny is also doing well. She struggles a bit with her eyesight, but is doing fantastic otherwise. And my hubby's grandmother is our role model for elderly life. She is 84. She works in her yard for hours each day. She exercises three times a week. She is still independent. She's funny and outgoing. She does not let her age get in her way at all.
My mother's parents are living, Grandpa is 91 and Grandma is 90. Grandma has game tournaments with her friends several times a week, and Grandpa walks all over town every day to see and be seen. I am 46 years old.
My husband and I both have our paternal grandmothers living. Our paternal grandfathers died the same year (9 years ago). His nana will be 93 in March and mine just turned 91. Both still live on their own, but his is in much better shape. My nana should probably move to assisted living as it's hard for her to get around (and stairs are a nightmare) but she's too stubborn. His nana, though, is in great shape and is very busy. She doesn't drive but has neighbors and friends who do and she uses senior transportation so she gets out almost every day and goes somewhere - shopping and errands, to a lecture or book club, to play cards or games, to lunch, to concerts, etc. She can still cook and host big holiday dinners (like Passover - oh the work!) and gets on a plane and travels a few times a year. Last year she went to Florida a couple of times and to Sedona. I feel like my kids are so, so lucky to have great-grandparents. My parents are both alive, healthy and active and my FIL and his wife are also very active (travel a ton, run races, do long bike trips). My MIL passed away before any of the kids were born, from cancer, so we don't take having them around and well for granted.
I am 37 and have lost all 4 of my grandparents in the last 6 years :( Three were in their 80's and in "fairly" good health, my Gma who was 93 when she passed had alzheimer's.
My husband has 1 Grandma left. She is 85. I adore her and we try to spend as much time with her as possible.
I'll be 50 later this year.
My Mom will be 70.
We are running away to celebrate!
My Gma will turn 91 this Sunday. We are doing her party 2moro. We consider her to be in wonderful health. BUT she is (& always has been) a hypochondriac. Therefore, she is not happy unless she is under a dr's care....for something or anything. Today it's: "I blew my nose & it was tinged with yellow. I think I'm getting a cold". Whatever, Gma...maybe it was the 1st blow of the day....since you have zero symptoms otherwise!
A few day's before Christmas, she was in a car accident. Hit 2 parked cars (one of them was a Corvette!), & her car was totaled. It is killing her to stop driving. She's always loved the freedom of the open road....traveling across states even in her 70s! Personally, I think my Mom/Uncle should have ended her driving years ago. :(
She lives in an independent-care apartment. We have recommended moving to an assisted-care facility....but she's a hardhead! Oh, well!
I am in my 30s and my parents are in the early 50s...my dad still has a grandma! And she is rock n rollin!
But I also have grandparents that are no longer with us, one who is alive but living with stage four Alz and a granny that could whip my a$$ at the gym!
Mine are gone but my husband's grandmother-mom's side I think-is over 100 years old. She lives in Mexico on a ranch and still does some of the work. She has had illnesses but got through them all.
My husband has one grandmother still alive and she is in a nursing home. I think she has alsimers (SP). But she's like in her 80's. Other than that we both have our mothers. Unfortunatly our fathers both passes way too young.
nope not a one, and I am 36. Though my parents came from parents that started late in life. My moms dad, was 68 when she was born and she was the 8th child. I dont have a great outlook I am afraid. I am probably headed to a early demise myself. My mom is gone, my dad is about ready too. Thankfully my husbands family are healthy as horses. All alive grandparents and even a great grandma thats 104.
Enjoy your time with her. My father’s parents passed long ago they were both born in the 1890's (they were 50 when my dad was born). I did get to meet them both. My mother’s parents have also passed and I knew them well. I miss the family dinners at their house every Sunday with all my aunts, uncles and cousins growing up. My dad passed when I was 17 (41 now) and thankfully my mom is still around to be a part of my daughter’s life.
I only have one surviving grandparent and she's in hospice now with dementia and heart trouble.
Enjoy the time you have with yours!
My grandmother is 86. I adore her. She has heart trouble but is otherwise still spry. My grandfather died about 9 years ago at just shy of 93. DH doesn't have any living grandparents.
I'm estranged from my father's side. I know my grandfather has passed away, but I can only assume my grandmother is, also. Nobody would ever give me a straight answer when I asked.
Only have 1 grandmother left on fathers side. She is slowing down a lot.
My husband's grandmother is 98 and just made my daughter 3 chicken pot pies. She is amazing. She cooks every night for herself and I enjoy her company very much.
I'm 34, my husband has one grandma, the others are all dead. His one set of grandparents died in the early 90s before we were together. His grandpa died 3 years ago. I have my grandma and grandpa on my dad's side, they're in their late 80s and my grandma on my mom's side is 89. My grandpa (her husband died a few months ago, in October. He was 90.) I miss him...
I do, but I don't call them my grandparents. They are horrid people and so I haven't talked to them in almost 10 years. I do know they are alive though. My husbands grandparents are alive and healthy. They are amazing people and I love talking to them. His grandma is turning 90 in a couple weeks.
Mine are. They are in their late 80s. My grandpa goes out on the tractor every day, and my grandma still does some gardening. My great grandma lived to be 105, so if they are anything like her...
Oh, and my grandparent's on my mom's side are also still alive but I don't speak to them.
I have one grandma that is still alive. She is 87 years old and is not in good health. She has a Hospice nurse that comes twice a week and is very surprised that she is still alive. My grandma has not eaten for over four weeks now and she only gets water from little sponges that they dip in water and then place them in her mouth. She is on morphine for her pain and only weighs 85lbs. It is very sad to see her this way!
