[JRandomFreeper]

Probably a good thing.

I won't have to worry much about it. When my daughter would help me up and walk me to the bathroom, at the door she would tell me: "You're on your own. Hollar when you are done." ;) Both are ex-military. No coddling, just providing the required assistance.

Fortunately, within 6 months I was back on my own.

/johnny

[hoosiermama]

Well at one point dad had pancreatitise and had to be fed with a gj tube. When they were trying to do a catheter they ran it through the wall of his scrotum. So it was either rely of hospital folks who were never there for him and had done enough damage, or “get over it” and nurse him back to health. At that point was turning him every hour so he wouldn't get bed sores, putting food and water in a tube every hour or so.

He did have to spend some time in rehab. But learned to walk again on his own after all had healed and he was back home. Thank God for modern medicine. They cured his pancreas without even a stitch, no surgery at all.

Don't know how many medical and nursing home staff (where he got Mercia and pneumonia) have told me he wouldn't be here if I hadn't “gotten over it” quickly. Personally just think he a tough ol bird that enjoys living.

He told me if he lived to be over a hundred, he was going to get married again....I told him if he did to make sure she was young and rich and could take care of BOTH of us.