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Daveroo

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HouseHobbits loss,made me post this,,,a sudden and tragic loss like that is horrible,,,i cant imagine,,but for me..im scared as well....i depend on my folks deeply..im disabled and in pretty bad shape,,not just overwieght as you can see,but i have a broken back and failed surgeries and a multitude of medical problems...im really shocked at how bad my health is after i got hurt,,ive just gone to hell...but thats not why im posting....

My dad has congestive heart failure and we almost lost him in dec 09,he had open heart surgery and only has less that a quarter of his heart working and he refuses to settle down,,he has it in his head if he slows down he will die,,but im afraid if he doesnt he is going to over tax what he has left and have a heart attack and die,,,he takes his BP and at times its 89/58.......its like hes dead as is....then he will take a pill and relax and it comes up to 100/72 and he goes back out the the garage and works more.

and mom is early stage alzhiemers..which is really upsetting..she wont admit it and laughs about the confuzing times,,but it scares the hell out of me...they go shopping every tuesday,,,one of dads "set in his ways " things,,,every tuesday morning...but mom wakes on thursdays and gets all dressed up and makeup on and says....im ready..has no clue what day it is,,,,then last week she walked to our doctors office with is a block away...well as blocks go in my area,,,she was gone for hours..called the office and they said she had left..so i got on my scooter and found her in the fairgrounds crying....which is past our house going the wrong way....she has been to the fairgrounds thouasnads of times having lived here for 65+ years and she had no idea where she was.....

im scared
 
My friend ,that's life...know that we all will experience the natural evolution of it.

My Mom kept all pictures of the family departed,as a young guy I would look at it with Humor...now many years late ,I do the same....I could fill up a Ball room ,of people who in my life are gone....they still however are with me ,in my daily thoughts...call it Family Worship if you want...but as long as I think of them...they are living!....I know,its just words...but thats all we got,with memories,and the realization that the future holds this for all...In doing so hoping that we will not be forgotten.

Rather dwell on NOW!..NOW,is a most precious Time,...NOW will never come again!

at 80 yrs old? Concerned?...NAWW!!..I'lll save it for the end.....


"OUR LIFE IS MADE BY THE DEATH OF OTHERS"...Da Vinci


NOW!!...back to the Sim!...
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My mother, God rest her soul, had about a four year fight that started with dimensia and ended up with full blown alzheimer's disease. It was pretty ugly and I would wish it on no one.

The process followed the normal trajectory with moments of forgetfulness to imagined events, to returning to her time as a WAVE in WWII and singing all the songs that were popular then. It of course ended with moments of violence on her part towards her care givers to finally just wasting away. She went from living on her own, to assisted living to specialized care to the grave in about three years.

Given that, prepare yourself as you will be sorely tried. My sympathies to you for both your mom and dad.
 
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