Cheers Tel, that’s exactly how I felt when he went, sense of relief knowing he was no longer suffering.
Me too mate. My ex mother in law had it. She lived with us for a while - never knew what she was liable to do next!!..she ended up in a home eventually. It’s a horrible disease, especially in the early stages funnily enough - when the sufferer still knows what’s happening to them but is powerless to do anything. Horrible!
Yeah the missus’ grandfather died of it last year. For the last few months he wasn’t unhappy at all as he thought he was a young man and could only speak his native Welsh.
Yeah for sure, the knowing about it and also realising there’s nothing you can do to prevent it must be terrible to deal with. Although funny story, near when he was first diagnosed, my nan had asked him to the hang the washing out on the line and also get her some bread out so she could make toast when she got downstairs. So as she came downstairs, she looked for the bread and asked him where he’d put it, he said it was on the side to which she said no it wasn’t. After a while he presumed he forgot to get the bread out so my nan got some and made herself toast. Later on in the day, as they went to bring the washing in, they realised he’d only gone outside and hung the bread on the washing line with all of the washing, each slice was pegged onto the line separately .
Going through this with my mum. I go in to see her every day, as my dad passed away 4 years ago, and seem to spend every day looking for something that she has misplaced. she put her purse in the microwave a few months ago and cooked all of her bank cards etc. The magnetic strip on the cards made a bit of a mess!!
At the moment, but she's detoriated quite quickly since Christmas. We have a doctors appointment booked for the 19th and will discuss care options.
Hope that all goes well for you and your mum mate. As you know my old man has just gone into care. Have you got a referral to a social worker in place ? If you want to PM to discuss a bit more I can talk you through how I went about getting my Dad a residential placement.
All i'm gonna say on all of this is, you all sound like top fellas and look after your family. It's great to read, it really is. Ya all good eggs really. I have few emotions really, about anyone or anything, well except the little un who is 7000 miles away.
Mine used to get up in the middle of the night to go shopping. She’d walk up there, come back as obviously everything was closed, wait about an hour and go again. She actually walked to the shops a few times before we sussed out what she was up to.
Watching one of my faves “Banged Up Abroad”, which isn’t the porno it could be. John McCain was a brave mofo.
Yep. Really went through the **** in Vietnam. Was offered the chance of an early release because of who his dad was but refused. Trump the draft dodger disrespected him. Mental really.
All the best mate ... can't be easy ... lost my old girl to COPD back in 2006 ... she was 77. Only real consolation was that we were able to talk right up to the end.
