Posted on 03/29/2021 2:54:09 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
Depends on how old you are right now.
64
We have been in our house 25 years. When I was looking at houses to buy Hubby had a definite no for certain things. It was due to his father being in a hospital bed in the living room of my in laws condo because he couldn’t make it up the stairs. Now 25 years later I’m thankful. We have no stairs. We have a walk in shower. The front door is double doors that both can be opened to accommodate a walker or wheelchair. If we need them we can just put some handicap bars in the showers and we’re good.
Lots of things have changed since then that extend life expectancy.
Not every drug is among them. Most of them just hide symptoms.
If you have high blood pressure, lose some weight, fatso.
Throwing pills at it ain’t going to save you.
I told my Mom I need to take a picture of her on the floor with packages all around. Use the Senior Citizen Starviing mantra.
It probably does feel good to vent. It sounds like you have it all covered and in Dad’s lucid moments I am sure he appreciates you very much. Thank you for the being the inspiration that you are.
“The best sex in your life comes after you turn 85....”
Maybe if hallucinations are part of dementia syndrome.
But my mother took lots of medications (including the bad boy statin and thyroid medication for 30 years) and lived to 102, only expiring after a fall and broken hip. So since I take after her, and take several of the same medications, I’ll continue on course for now.
let us know at 76
I’ll continue on course for now.
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Well, under those circumstances I would do just as you’re doing. When talking with friends about our advanced age I always remind them that we’re the lucky ones because, e.g., the vast majority of people around the world who were born the same year and day that I was are long gone.
Wow! Someone has his/her work cut out. We, mostly my sister, cleaned out our parents’ home, it was stuffed top to bottom on every floor, and attic. She started in June, we had a sale, and all that is left is an organ and piano we are deconstructing. It was almost a full time job for her.
Yes, my husband and I cleaned out my parents house. Took a long time but we got it done. Still sad that my Mother wasn’t aware. After she settled into her memory care apartment, she never mentioned her house. I miss my Mother every day.
I am sorry. It is so hard when our parents are gone.
I have bouts where I just miss my parents awfully, especially since the closing on their house is tomorrow.
Bless you. I’m right there with you. I understand. So painful. I sold my parents house without her knowledge. Thank goodness she never asked to go back.. Please let me know how it works out and how you are doing. I care.
Yep. Sometimes I look in the mirror and wonder what happened. :-)
Song played a funeral of someone I knew ...
Lyrics to Alleluia, The Great Storm Is Over
The thunder and lightning gave voice to the night; the little lame child cried aloud in her fright. . “Hush, little baby, a story I’ll tell, of a love that has vanquished the powers of hell.
Alleluia, the great storm is over, lift up your wings and fly! Alleluia, the great storm is over, lift up your wings and fly!
“Sweetness in the air, and justice on the wind, laughter in the house where the mourners had been. The deaf shall have music, the blind have new eyes, the standards of death taken down by surprise.
Alleluia, the great storm is over, lift up your wings and fly! Alleluia, the great storm is over, lift up your wings and fly!
Release for the captives, an end to the wars, new streams in the desert, new hope for the poor. The little lame children will dance as they sing, and play with the bears and the lions in spring.
Alleluia, the great storm is over, lift up your wings and fly! Alleluia, the great storm is over, lift up your wings and fly!
“Hush little baby, let go of your fear: the Lord loves his own, and your mother is here.” The child fell asleep as the lantern did burn. The mother sang on ‘till her Bridegroom’s return.
Was she featured in National Enquirer? I think we have a book in these feisty gals, no? “Diets for Life” - we’d sell millions.
Hear hear!! I’m 75, walk a minimum of 5 miles a day with my husband, take no meds. We were in the Rockies at 10,000’ last summer, and my husband and I both out-walked my sister and BIL - who are 60. And we are both in better shape. 77 might look old from 50, but when you get there, if you take care of yourself, you might find it more like middle age.
Ha, ha, not a bad idea. She was a tiny gal, barely 5 feet tall and size 4 1/2 shoe. Pretty red hair.
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