The Old Folks Home

[CSolis]

Ya'll are making me not want to post. My dad made it to 69, a brother of mine passed at 39. Both had a lot to do with their own doing. Which I'm partially guilty of.
Grandpa worked up until the year he passed but his was heart surgery and part of the surgery went down stream and cut a vein/artery down stream and severe internal bleeding. Mid/ late 70's and grandma was just a few years later. Mostly because he was gone.

I lost my mom to cancer when she was just about to turn 55. Life is not fair at best. Make the most of the years/days you have.

 

[drumstick diva]

My mom got breast cancer at 65 and refused to take chemo and or radiation. The doctor gave her tamoxifin.. My mom took it for 11 years - then found out if you took it longer than 5 years, it actually caused cancer. Well the dim wits kept renewing her prescription,so she kept taking it. She died at 77 because it had spread throughout her body.

Whereas my father had prostate cancer, they said in men his age it was very slow progressing. Instead he kept getting inhalation pneumonia because - he had dementia and forgot how to swallow food correctly. He ended up dying in a nursing home at 90 - yep from pneumonia. They had called many times to say he was dying and that he should receive "last rites," but then he would recover.

At 90 he died from it and it was a great shock - we were so used to having him recover and then he didn't.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I lived with grandma from the time I was about 3 till I was 8. After Ma and Dad took me to washington state, Grandma moved into town the care for her Brother after he passed she sarted having issues mentaly but was in her later 80's by then.. She was moved to oldest Sons home
but next winter she was outside saying I was in the car she needed to get me .. she slipped and broker her hip then
and was put in the retirement home in her home town

 

[sourland]

Before Grandma lost her thinking.. She said her regret living so long all her friends had passed..

Mom said the same thing. I get it now.
Good morning, OF.

 

[CSolis]

Good Morning, OF.. a bit froggy outside this morning.. maybe some rain in the future.. Love those misty mornings.

 

[cheepteach]

supposed to be sunny today---rain tomorrow.
will grill tonight---cheeseburgers and dogs

 

[CLSranch]

Howdy OF's. Supposed to rain on and off all day here. Just for giggles last night I checked the freezer that has the new beef in it. Thank goodness I did, I ended up taking 8 roast to the neighbors shop freezer well after bedtime. Had room for the rest of the stuff in the house.

 

[CSolis]

Howdy OF's. Supposed to rain on and off all day here. Just for giggles last night I checked the freezer that has the new beef in it. Thank goodness I did, I ended up taking 8 roast to the neighbors shop freezer well after bedtime. Had room for the rest of the stuff in the house.

Don't tell me it stopped freezing? Bad freezer, bad bad!

 

[CLSranch]

Don't tell me it stopped freezing? Bad freezer, bad bad!

Yep. I should've plugged it in weeks earlier to make sure it would keep working. Kinda forgot. It's been sitting in the garage in new condition for a few years unplugged.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Should have maybe vacummed the spiders out first
Good morning Old Folks