LETS TALK ABOUT OUR aging PARENTS

[Dzone]

How are your parents doing?
If she ever goes into an assisted living facility, I will be their best friend in the world or I will be the fuking worst nightmare they every had.

Its a scary thing what goes on in those nursing homes. Lot of neglect and outright abuse. My mom is still living alone, assisted only by a walker. She clled me just now and said she is haveing extreme leg and foot pain today. she lves about 40 minutes from here, so I need to go out and check on her.

its hard seeing your parents age, isnt it? I am constantly on her daily to exercise. Need to get her to the gym up the street. shes about 80

[Dzone]

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forgot to say that my dad died 5 years ago as a result of gross medicl malprctice. So we also have to know what the doctors are doing to our parents. My dad should still be alive.

[Dzone]

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and we gota guard against taking them for granted,.because Let me tell you, when theyre gone, theyrre gone.

If you have parents in facilities now and they are in another state, be on the phone with the nurses and docs at that facility like all the fukin time. If there is any abuse going on, report it to the admiinstratror immediately. There are people working in health facilities that dont GIVE A FUK ABOUT THE PEOPLE IN THERE and they hate working there.

[FUZO]

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MY MOM IS STILL AROUND MY DAD DIED IN A VA HOSPITAL FOR VETRANS HE WAS IN THERE A LONG TIME. . .I WAS 25 WHEN HE PASSED.

[daved150]

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my dad's on oxygen permanately...he's a vet. one of the ones they did the gas testing on in europe....
my mom...her age is just starting to catch up to her. i think too much worrian about my dad. until recently my mom looked to be 10-15 years younger than she is...this economy and my dads health is hurting her.
but...they try to stay in a general positive state of mind.
thanks for asking, lol.

[Ropie11]

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My dad passed away last year, he was 80. I am still struggling with his loss, for he and I were as close as a Dad and daughter could ever be.
I miss him every single second of every day, and wonder if it will ever get any easier?

My Mom is now 80, and I worry about her, and losing her, and what I will do once both my parents are gone?

[daved150]

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My dad passed away last year, he was 80. I am still struggling with his loss, for he and I were as close as a Dad and daughter could ever be.
I miss him every single second of every day, and wonder if it will ever get any easier?

My Mom is now 80, and I worry about her, and losing her, and what I will do once both my parents are gone?

i am real sorry to hear this ropie....i'm the same...i'm gonna hate the day my dad or mom goes....thats gonna suck hardcore.

[pigmeat]

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my parents are in good health still, thank god. They are only 59

[Dzone]

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My dad passed away last year, he was 80. I am still struggling with his loss, for he and I were as close as a Dad and daughter could ever be.
I miss him every single second of every day, and wonder if it will ever get any easier?

My Mom is now 80, and I worry about her, and losing her, and what I will do once both my parents are gone?

Im sorry to hear that Ropie. well, you have good friends on this board who care a lot bout you. Just know that.

My dads death was so surreal. Everything about it. We played only patriotic american march music at the funeral. He was in WW2. Had the salute and flag folding.

still kinda strange. strange that he's not here, So many times when life was sooo so hard, how I would think "If only my dad was here right now. This would all work out"

[daved150]

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Im sorry to hear that Ropie. well, you have good friends on this board who care a lot bout you. Just know that.

My dads death was so surreal. Everything about it. We played only patriotic american march music at the funeral. He was in WW2. Had the salute and flag folding.

still kinda strange. strange that he's not here, So many times when life was sooo so hard, how I would think "If only my dad was here right now. This would all work out"

weird aint it...i spent YEARS trying to get away from my old man...he worked my ASS off when i was a kid. i was convinced that he was not only a lazy ass but didnt know what the hell he was talking about EVER!!! (pfft...guy didnt know the diff between hair metal and classic rock!!!)...then...funny thing happened on the way to getting my own family....i found out he's pretty smart. his stock went through the roof!!! now....i dread the day he has to go.... the only thing that makes it SEMI-alright is the fact that i lost a brother when i was young...he was 17 (i was 10)....kinda cool to think my old man will get to see bobby again, ya know?

[Dzone]

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^ya dave. thats real good that you appreciate your dad now. I really couldnt stand my dad for years. Much to my regret. But we did have some real good times togethrer in his later years. I spent my life trying to not be like him. Now, there are many ways i so wish i could be like him. maybe its not too late for me to adopt those qualities that made him great in my eyes.

[jipped genes]

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my folks are 70, they are still in good health, dad plays tennis and they walk alot at the mall.

i remeber when i was a kid my dad was the strongest man in the world now he looks pretty frail to me.