Son Takes Care of Father
Parents bring us to this world, they dedicate unconditional love to raise us up. When we are growing up, they are growing old.
This is a real story.
Rex cares for his father who had a stroke. When his father thanks him for his filial love, his reply makes us shed tears!
Rex: Good morning Sir, Ready to get up? Let me get your feet up. How you doing today?
Dad: Ok. Good morning.
Rex: I remember always looking at my dad’s arms like when I was like 8, 9, 10 years old. He had arms like Popeye. He was a tugboat captain, and I so admired his physique. And now it’s a different story, you know. And that’s just the way it is.
So my dad had a stroke. And now he can’t get around. He can’t walk. And he needs me to help him out. And my son Luke and I have been doing it. And I’d do anything, anything for him. There’s a definite role reversal that happens. I have to wake him up in the morning and take care of him and groom him and shave him and shower him. It’s actually an honor to do that for your father, because he did it for me when I was a kid.
Rex: How am I doing so far dad?
Dad: I’m ok.
Rex: You know it takes me like a half an hour to shave my father because I have to be so careful.
Dad: Be careful with that razor.
Rex: OK, I will, I will I will. There we go. Ok, good. I love that face. Hi. I’m … I am one of the lucky ones. A lot my friends, a lot my friends my age, do not have their dads, and I still have my dad. He always says to me, he looks up at me after I pour love on him for the whole day, and he says “I don’t know what I did to deserve you.” And I say “Dad, I got you.”
Showing a son’s relationship with his elderly father, the video draws on the close bond formed when a role-reversal occurs between an elderly parent and his child. When it’s time for the child to care for the parent, a new kind of intimacy is built.
Kristian Rex, the son in the spot, says it takes up to 30 minutes to shave his father due to the need to be so careful with his wrinkled skin. But, he adds, “It’s an honor to do that [shower and shave him] for your father, because he did it for me when I was a kid. I’m one of the lucky ones. A lot of my friends my age don’t have their dads. And I still have my dad.”