roccoschili Chapter 126 Aunt Deng's Dentures
Chapter 126 Aunt Deng's Dentures
After being reminded by Aunt He, Aunt Yang realized that there were intermittent voices coming from her, mixed with crying sounds.
The voice was low and sad, carrying unspeakable pain and depression.
"He... he's crying. It sounds so scary. Could it be a wronged ghost? The wronged ghosts in TV dramas will take lives. I don't want to die. I haven't lived enough." Aunt He held Aunt Yang's arm tightly, not daring to let go.
"Don't talk, I can't hear what he is saying." Aunt Yang supported Aunt He, whose legs were shaking, while holding her breath and concentrating carefully to identify the source of the sound.
After a while, Aunt Yang confirmed: "I heard her crying."
Aunt He shrank behind Aunt Yang. A crying ghost was even more terrifying.
"That ghost seems to be speaking English." Aunt Yang pulled her upstairs.
"Are you crazy? How can a ghost talk, and speak English? I'm scared to death. I'm not in the mood to joke with you." Aunt He's eyes widened and she shook Aunt Yang's arm hard. "Let me go. I won't go upstairs. I'm scared."
Aunt Yang was unmoved. "You haven't seen what a ghost looks like yet, come on, I'll take you to see it."
Aunt He almost sat down on the ground, struggling desperately: "I won't go, I'm scared, I don't want to know, if you want to go, go by yourself."
Aunt Yang heard something.
The person upstairs is not a ghost, but a person.
She dragged the trembling Aunt He upstairs and saw a short old woman with silver hair and short ears huddled in the corner of the stairwell on the third floor with tears on her face.
She was crying and reading while crying.
The old man read with great difficulty, his mouth opening and closing frequently.
Because he didn't wear dentures, he spoke with a lisp, and his voice was hoarse and low, so his voice sounded a little distorted.
Aunt Yang tried to identify for a long time but couldn't remember who this old sister was, so she pulled down Aunt He's hands that were covering her face and said, "Stop covering it. There's no ghost. It's a human. Open your eyes and say hello, you coward."
"Who are you saying is a coward?" When Aunt He heard Aunt Yang scolding her, she immediately switched to combat mode.
When she looked up, she met the old woman's gaze: "Sister Deng, what's wrong with you? Why are you crying?"
Aunt He didn't have time to feel the joy of surviving the disaster. When she saw Aunt Deng's red and swollen eyes, her heart began to panic.
"Sister Deng, what are you doing in the corridor alone?"
"Don't cry, tell us what happened or what difficulties you have, and we will help you solve them."
Aunt Deng stood there at a loss. Her words would leak out, and if she opened her mouth she was afraid people would laugh at her, but if she didn't, it would be impolite.
He hesitated to speak, wiping his face with his sleeve, "I'm fine, there are not many people here, I'm practicing my spoken English, I can't pass the test if I don't speak well."
"Is that why you're crying?" Aunt He, who was outspoken, answered subconsciously.
Aunt Yang covered her mouth and they looked at each other. Things were not that simple.
"Well... I have something to do, so I'll leave first. You don't have to worry about me." Aunt Deng stood up suddenly and ran downstairs.
While running, I felt that I was not doing well enough.
Aunt Deng cried because she didn't want to wear dentures.
Her dentures got stuck when she was eating the candied sweet potatoes her granddaughter made yesterday.
In a panic, I pulled my dentures off and it hurt my gums. I thought I'd just not wear them for a few days to give it a rest.
She didn't dare to say it because she was afraid that her daughter would scold her granddaughter for letting her eat anything she wanted and not telling her to avoid certain foods.
The child is not wrong, she is just greedy.
At that time, her granddaughter reminded her that the sweet potato slices were a bit hard.
Aunt Deng was even more stubborn, insisting that she was fine and that her teeth were in good condition.
Then she felt the melted candy sticking to her teeth, and she pulled it anxiously, pulling off her dentures along with them.
She used to like candied sweet potatoes very much, but now she has to avoid them since she wears dentures.
The love-hate relationship between Aunt Deng and her dentures is played out every day.
In addition to the candied sweet potatoes, there are also pulled-tooth sweet potatoes.
The quarrel was so violent that Dentures ran away from home.
There are also cases where dentures fall out while laughing.
She hates her dentures because they always make her look ugly.
Aunt Deng is 65 years old and has been wearing dentures for two weeks.
She felt embarrassed and never mentioned it in front of outsiders.
After coming to the senior citizens' university, she is no longer so taboo and seniors who have worn dentures will pass on their experience to her.
But psychologically she still resisted others knowing that she had dentures, so she deliberately left them at home and didn't wear them. But she felt uncomfortable eating without them, so she ate very little these days.
Lin Qinglan received news from Aunt Deng's daughter and the tip-off from Aunt He and others.
"Aunt Deng, your daughter said she sent you some dentures. She's at the school gate now. Can I go with you to get them?"
Aunt Deng was a little reluctant: "Principal Xiaolin, I understand. Tell her not to send her anymore in the future. I don't want to wear dentures."
Lin Qinglan took Aunt Deng to the office and closed the door with a gentle tone.
"Aunt Deng, can you tell me why you don't want to wear dentures?"
Aunt Deng lowered her head and grabbed her hair: "Wearing dentures reminds me all the time that I am old."
"Principal Xiaolin, I'm only 65 this year. I have a physical examination every year and I've always been in good health."
"These dentures made me feel like I was out of control of my body and I didn't even understand my own health."
"Some of my lower teeth have been loose for a long time. I don't want to go to the hospital. I don't want to accept that I am aging so quickly. I know this idea is wrong."
"But I don't want to face reality. I can't accept that one day I will have a completely bald mouth without any teeth. That would be too ugly."
"The situation got worse after I put it off for too long. My teeth fell out and I went to get dentures. But they are still in the adjustment period and they are too tight and uncomfortable. I don't want to wear them."
The more Aunt Deng spoke, the more she lowered her head. She seemed to be emotionally broken. She sobbed quietly and buried her head in her arms, not wanting to be discovered.
After listening to Aunt Deng, Lin Qinglan hurried to check the dangers of not wearing dentures in old age, and the more she read, the more frightened she became.
You can’t not wear it, and you can’t wear it incorrectly either.
There is also a lot of knowledge involved in dentures.
As one of the signs of aging, tooth loss, wrinkles and gray hair are among the concerns of the elderly.
It also means that your body is aging and many of its functions are gradually becoming out of control.
As we age, our sense organs and body functions deteriorate. Many things that were once easy to do become difficult, such as urinating and defecating on our own, eating on our own, and bathing on our own...
The elderly want to be able to take care of themselves and not trouble their children.
They were anxious and stared out the window all day long.
Although time has not locked their legs, it has trapped many people in place.
The uncles and aunts attending the senior citizens' university are in the transition period from being in good health in their fifties and sixties to being in their seventies and eighties with declining functions.
How to make aging less of a worry is a long-term and heavy topic.
So that our uncles and aunts can truly be happy physically and mentally during their retirement life.
What can senior citizen universities do for them?