My aunt says my grandmother does not eat sea weed. My grandmother said she does not eat sea weed plus she was returning the brown rice I gave her. Do I just lay down and give up? Of course not!
My grandmother asked to be brought to my home yesterday. For a showdown. She says she does not like the taste of certain things and that she does not eat sea weed. I told the driver to buy sea weed along the way. My grandmother sabotaged their buying attempt by telling her nannie to buy five pesos worth!
I bought fresh sea weed from our market. 3 different kinds.
I gave my grandmother a scathing lecture that I knew what I was doing and that nobody, nobody, nobody else knows how to go about curing her.
I made sure she was hungry, we extended to 12:30 pm. She saw my children eat sea weed with gusto. I sat with her. I myself put the required 1 cup quantity of sea weed on her plate. I sat beside her. I ate the same sea weeds. I gave her brown rice. I gave her fish and rock salt.
Peer pressure. Everyone in the table is eating sea weed and brown rice. Nya nya nya na nya nya… you are the queer one, not eating good food! Ha ha ha, it worked. She gulped all the sea weed and all the brown rice in a normal manner. Bah women. At 82 and as my grandmother, all she needs is peer pressure.
I had her take a bit of sea weed home for the following day. I told her her next sea weed meal should happen again after 1 week. Time to test her skin for iodine absoption via using our iodine tincture tomorrow. If the tincture disappears within 24 hours, she needs more iodine.