Posted on 12/05/2022 3:26:57 PM PST by Rummyfan
Yep.
Choices have consequences.
You couldn’t be more right. Good Lord what a bitter harvest that will be.
I guess that somewhere there are good nursing homes but the ones we run to are not.
I have decided that if I am given the choice of going to a nursing home or the volcano, I will pick the volcano.
Something about coming in and staff says “I was talking to her 15 minutes ago.” Sorry rigor does not set in that fast.
Or slapping un-prescribed fentanyl patches on patients to keep them calm(?)
A fairly young rough looking biker (real biker) was in one doing rehab for a wreck remarked one day about it being “hard core.”
Give me the volcano or blizzard.
That's where I know you from. It's one thing when you try to converse with me and others in the shopping aisles, I can usually slip away but when you strike up a conversation with the sales clerk instead of paying your bill and going on when all of us are in line . . well that's too much. We have a life. We wanna get home. We use a credit card and two seconds later we're outta there. But not you. You're there counting out your pennies and then dropping some sending everyone scurrying to round them up to get you onward. Then you want to finish your story. Next time just write a book. I'm sure it's a page turner. Get a cat.
Being a primary care giver is very hard work, physically, mentally and emotionally. It will take time, glad you recognize that.
God bless you!
In the new age, kinless seniors will meet the same fate as unwanted fetuses.
Once euthanizing one class becomes accepted, no one is safe.
Helping others who need help is not a “ticket” to heaven but is commanded of us by the Lord.
My wife and I are in our 70’s. We dropped everything to come and live with her father who is now 95. He could not stay in his home without our assistance. He cannot cook for himself or keep up his house nor maintain the outside yard. He can no longer drive, has no strength to shop for groceries and needs help making out checks to pay his bills.
We are simply doing what is morally proper and showing honor to our father as we were told to do by the Almighty.
Helping others who need it is an inherent blessing to the caregivers.
Good works are usually a sign of grace. No works don’t save but grace without works is death.
Of course, that takes much time. Be well..
Soylent Green
I hear it tastes good, and keeps covid at bay.
(I go to the grocery store and I’m now always starting up conversations with fellow costumers!)
We’ll good for you. Met an older gentleman in the grocery store about a week ago. He remarked that the Lord is coming soon and I agreed with him.
Hope I get to see him again. Here, There or in the air.
Are you a caregiver?
Not all heroes wear capes. Yeah…I’m looking at you.
Nope
Maybe it was a career possibility in 2008. I had this extensive IT career I tried to restart. Unsuccessfully.
A lot of men too and what’s worse, there are not many places that taken in elderly men, especially if they have dementia.
THE NEW OLD AGE, Who Will Care for ‘Kinless’ Seniors?
This is one of societies’ real problem not all the other selfish bs.
There are no simple and low cost ways to handle this issue which gets larger each day.
Just having a good job to stay afloat is often too much of a challenge for many of us.
We were in our 55-60’s living on the West Coast with good jobs, health care and basically good health. Our mothers were basically healthy widows with good active brains in their 70’s.
They lived in the MidWest and Southwest. They didn’t want to relocate out here and leave most of their families back in the MW and/or SW.
They would fly out for long visits until that became a challenge. My wife and I were entering an age where we didn’t want to travel. Most of the contact with our Mothers was via weekly phone calls. I had offered to let my MIL live with us. She preferred staying in the MW and living by herself.
My mother had met a really nice retired guy, and he would have loved to have move to a retirement town about 15 minutes away from our home with my mother. She refused to consider that option, and he moved on.
A couple of years later, she moved into a mixed apt re ages where my sibling lived back in the SW. A couple of years later she moved into good senior citizen center. She had 4 widowed sisters, and they often got together for long weekends/weekdays.
They loved their hen parties and 24 hour bridge sessions.
Later, the 2 older sisters died, and she and her younger sister remained close until they passed. A couple of younger cousins checked on them and got them out to eat once a week to an upscale cafeteria. That made sure they had plenty to eat, non retirement home meals.
My wife worked full time until she was in her early 70-’s.
I had gotten involved again with our church and the local Salvation Army. After she fully retired, I weaned myself off the local charities.
We have a son and dil about 30 minutes away,and like so many couples in that age, scheduling events with us take time, planning and coordination.
Then, sometimes Mother Nature takes charge, and like now, we/4 are recovering from Thanksgiving Covid.
My wife’s bible study group often replaces the need of family like with this crud. We got flowers and a Costco cooked chicken delivered to our back door ramp by one of the ladies a couple of hours ago.
That’s okay, the ever-loving government will be there to gently put her to sleep...
This is going to be a big problem. And there will be a huge amount of government pressure for “assisted suicide,” aka state-sanctioned murder.
You were a good friend. God bless you.
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