It ended up becoming a game for Alexis, who would ask him, "Who am I?" (to which he would answer: "My niece") and "What's my name?" ("Xiao mei", which means little girl in Chinese). It semi-paralysed him and also caused vascular dementia, which took away a lot of his personality and memories. Three months before she was born, her grandfather, Mr Eric Kho, suffered a second stroke. She would also show him card tricks, tickle him from behind his car seat and shove the ends of her hair into his ears.īut Alexis, now 11, says she always knew that "grandpa used to be a different person and could remember things better". She was good at making him laugh, although the two of them did not speak much.
SINGAPORE - As a little girl, Alexis Kho used to spin her late grandfather around in circles whenever he sat in his wheelchair.
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