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I hate the lack of immortality

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  1. Matthew Bound Still Lurks

    Matthew Bound Still Lurks Well-Known Member

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    Matthew Bound Still Lurks, Jan 22, 2020
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    Very very sad news <peacedove> It's a hellish way to go, dementia.

    Thanks for all the laughs Terry <wizard>I'll still be celebrating your life's work and laughing until the day I run up the curtain <cheers>
     
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    Some Monty Python silliness...





    I will have to watch Life Of Brian again, it's been too long.
     
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    daimungeezer, Jan 22, 2020
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    Lost my wife’s sister to Alzheimer’s a year ago and my wife’s Mother has vascular dementia.

    Alzheimer’s is a terrible disease - vascular dementia is a ‘nicer’ (I know an oxymoron) illness - but the effect is the same......
     
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    Taffvalerowdy, Jan 22, 2020
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    You have my sympathy, for your loved ones and yourself.

    We cared for my Father-In-Law with dementia, in his own home. It was a full time job, 24/7, night's were the worst actually.
     
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    daimungeezer, Jan 22, 2020
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    I have to post this one. Not sure if it should have gone on the musical thread though...



    Genius!
     
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    Taffvalerowdy Well-Known Member

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    Managed to care for my Mother-in- Law in her own home until she was 98. She will be 100 in June!
     
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    Taffvalerowdy, Jan 22, 2020
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    Yes its terrible. My 92 year old father in law has vascular dementia
     
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    glamexile, Jan 22, 2020
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    Matthew Bound Still Lurks Well-Known Member

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    No matter who you are, what you've done or achieved , Death is the great leveller .My sympathetic thoughts to all who are caring for someone dear.I have a close relative suffering from motor neurone disease and on the scale of cruelty that has to be up with the worst
     
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    Matthew Bound Still Lurks, Jan 22, 2020
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    My sympathies to you all having to deal with this. As an ageing population (as evident by so many old farts on this forum :grin:) this touches more and more families of course.
     
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    daimungeezer, Jan 23, 2020
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    About two years ago i came to see my dad who had achieved something he always wanted to - move to the Gower! Only problem was that he knew nothing about it as it was to a home near Three cliffs with a wing for dementia. Anyway they brought my dad into the room and asked him if he knew who I was - he said no. I started talking to him and asked him again, 'Do you know who I am dad?' he shouted ' Who the bloody hell are you calling dad!' - I said 'It's me dad - cliff' he said ' Oh hello boy!' and asked me how I was doing! It was sad in so many ways but I had the great advantage of having left wales 35 years ago and so in my mind I had all of the great memories of when I was a kid and how great it was to bring my daughters over to know him - best night when we took them all down the dogs in fforestfach! - without seeing the bad changes. Now we have my mother in law in the same state - doesn't know who we are when we visit.
     
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    nicewelshlumberjack, Jan 24, 2020
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