\u201c \u2019n Pop kan nie \u2019n gelukkige einde bied nie, maar dit bring vertroosting vir my ma in haar eensame bestaan daar in die tehuis se kamertjie,\u201d s\u00ea Priscilla du Toit van Kroonstad oor haar ma, Bettie Steyn, wat in 2021 met demensie en Alzheimer se siekte gediagnoseer is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die 81-jarige tannie Bettie, wat oorspronklik in Krugersdorp gewoon het, is in Oktober 2021 deur \u2019n neuroloog in Sandton gediagnoseer, nadat haar kinders vermoed het iets is nie pluis met hul ma nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Du Toit s\u00ea haar ma het binne maande van \u2019n dinamiese vrou verander na iemand wat verstrooid voorkom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tannie Bettie is sedertien \u2019n inwoner van die Huis Onze Rust in Steynsrus, waar sy versorg word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit is juis by di\u00e9 tehuis dat een van die personeellede, Elsa Swanepoel, vir haar \u2019n pop gegee het om te versorg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Phyllis Visser, \u2019n verpleegkundige by die tehuis, het vir tannie Bettie se pop speelgoed en klere gebring en selfs \u2019n kot gere\u00ebl sodat die pop langs haar bed kan slaap. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy ma is baie geheg aan Phyllis en loop heeldag agter haar aan; dit is, as die twee nie popspeel nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns is so dankbaar vir die goeie en besorgde personeel van Huis Onze Rust wat so mooi na my ma omsien.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Al kan tannie Bettie nie meer haar eie kinders onthou nie, is die pop baie bekend aan haar en gee die pop weer vir haar sin in die lewe en groot vreugde. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die pop, sonder \u2019n naam en geslag, word soms deur van die verpleegsters op die rug gedra wanneer die \u201cou moedertjie\u201d moeg voel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy versorg, voer en trek die pop aan soos haar eie baba. Dit is ook duidelik dat die pop nie \u2019n plaasvervanger is nie, maar eerder \u2019n nuwe maat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens die medici help so \u2019n pop en die versorging daarvan pasi\u00ebnte soos tannie Bettie om weer betekenis in die lewe te ervaar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk hoop deur die storie van my ma te vertel kan dit vir iemand wat in dieselfde situasie is, ook iets beteken. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns kan sien sy is baie gelukkiger vandat sy die pop versorg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDalk kan ander families dit ook probeer met hulle geliefdes wat nie meer kan onthou nie,\u201d s\u00ea Du Toit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tannie Bettie het drie kinders: Du Toit (60), Sylvia Mare (48) en Hendry Bodington (58). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Haar man, Hendry Bodington, is in 1993 aan \u2019n hartaanval oorlede. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy broer is in Julie vanjaar oorlede, maar my ma is nie bewus van sy afsterwe nie en ons wou haar nie onnodig ontstel nie,\u201d s\u00ea Du Toit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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