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Re: Parents getting old

Posted: Fri September 30, 2022 7:21 pm
by spike
Widowmaker?

(even though he wouldn’t be making your mom a widow)

Re: Parents getting old

Posted: Fri September 30, 2022 8:01 pm
by BurtReynolds
Yeah

Re: Parents getting old

Posted: Sat December 24, 2022 3:36 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
My grandmother turns 94 tomorrow. She fell in front of her bed yesterday and this morning. We should not have to live past 85.

Re: Parents getting old

Posted: Sat December 24, 2022 4:52 pm
by JuanHamm
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:My grandmother turns 94 tomorrow. She fell in front of her bed yesterday and this morning. We should not have to live past 85.
Maybe you should smother her

Re: Parents getting old

Posted: Sat December 24, 2022 4:54 pm
by dad
with love.

Re: Parents getting old

Posted: Sat December 24, 2022 4:54 pm
by JuanHamm
And a pillow

Re: Parents getting old

Posted: Sat December 24, 2022 5:05 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
This is why you can’t come over for Christmas.

Re: Parents getting old

Posted: Sat December 24, 2022 5:07 pm
by JuanHamm
If you let me come I promise I'll smother you too

Re: Parents getting old

Posted: Sat December 24, 2022 5:32 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
JuanHamm wrote:If you let me come I promise I'll smother you too
I don’t want to go out at the hands of you.

Re: Parents getting old

Posted: Sat December 24, 2022 5:37 pm
by JuanHamm
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
JuanHamm wrote:If you let me come I promise I'll smother you too
I don’t want to go out at the hands of you.
I'll use my butt

Re: Parents getting old

Posted: Sat December 24, 2022 6:18 pm
by dad
Does that make lenny, Armond?

Re: Parents getting old

Posted: Sat December 24, 2022 6:30 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
I quit RM.

Re: Parents getting old

Posted: Tue December 27, 2022 6:35 pm
by Ello Sailor
JuanHamm wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:My grandmother turns 94 tomorrow. She fell in front of her bed yesterday and this morning. We should not have to live past 85.
Maybe you should smother her
Wtf

Re: Parents getting old

Posted: Tue December 27, 2022 6:38 pm
by dad
Ello Sailor wrote:
JuanHamm wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:My grandmother turns 94 tomorrow. She fell in front of her bed yesterday and this morning. We should not have to live past 85.
Maybe you should smother her
Wtf
you're next.

Re: Parents getting old

Posted: Tue December 27, 2022 7:22 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
dad wrote:
Ello Sailor wrote:
JuanHamm wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:My grandmother turns 94 tomorrow. She fell in front of her bed yesterday and this morning. We should not have to live past 85.
Maybe you should smother her
Wtf
you're next.
Goldberg post.

Re: Parents getting old

Posted: Fri January 06, 2023 8:43 pm
by B
My mother has stopped eating, so I made a Facebook post and tagged her to tell her friends and family that their time to visit with her is very limited.

I get a lot of love and prayers and whatnot, but what I want is for people to go sit with her or call my dad or visit with my dad. I even posted the address of her nursing home.

Do I comment and try to steer her friends and family that way, or do I just leave it and let people respond however they want to respond?

Re: Parents getting old

Posted: Fri January 06, 2023 9:39 pm
by Monkey_Driven
So sorry to hear about your mom, B. If there are particular close friends or family members who you want to "instruct", I'd reach out to them privately. Otherwise, your FB post is probably enough.

Don't assume inaction is not caring. Everyone grieves in different ways. What does your dad need to feel supported?

Re: Parents getting old

Posted: Fri January 06, 2023 9:41 pm
by VinylGuy
sorry to hear this B

Re: Parents getting old

Posted: Fri January 06, 2023 10:03 pm
by B
Monkey_Driven wrote:So sorry to hear about your mom, B. If there are particular close friends or family members who you want to "instruct", I'd reach out to them privately. Otherwise, your FB post is probably enough.

Don't assume inaction is not caring. Everyone grieves in different ways. What does your dad need to feel supported?
Yeah, since I've lived in another state for 20 years, I don't REALLY want to instruct anyone. I was hoping a post my spur some of my parents' friends or church congregation into action.

My dad would probably benefit from calls, which I assume will happen, but he'd be "happy" to find out people visited mom in her last days.

We'll probably see everyone at the funeral. I get a lot of "I just don't want to see her like that." (She's been mostly non-responsive for the past 6 months.) I get that, but dad's there every day feeding her, and it means so much when someone else visits.

Re: Parents getting old

Posted: Fri January 06, 2023 10:06 pm
by dad
I'm sorry, B.