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[broodytood]

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A big X2!!! I love him! Might have to get me some Seramas!!!

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

Shoot, I opted to not mow lawns today so I could get some coops cleaned. I guess I better go do that.

I'm just so relaxed now that DH is back to work and I can't believe it's only 12:30! I have 3 1/2 hours before he gets home. LOL, going now, see ya all later.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I already suggested that; she was more receptive to the idea of volunteering at Senior Services so she can help old people- she was a waitress most of her life (started at 14, retired the last time at 82) and could be helping with making people happy so they eat more.

Hmm, I don't see too many FAT old people. Maybe they do need to eat more.

Very thin elderly people have very bad medical prospects, and do not recover well from surgery, heart attacks, or infection. A lot of the "lonely old" are habitually underfed and dehydrated- we just went through a series of problems on the other side of the family, where people needed moved into assisted living after they were hospitalized with problems related to not having an appetite; it turns out, I found out while we were going through the cataclysm, that one of the best things for elderly people living alone (especially recent widows and widowers) is to have someone come and talk to them while they prepare food and eat.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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Hmm, I don't see too many FAT old people. Maybe they do need to eat more.

Very thin elderly people have very bad medical prospects, and do not recover well from surgery, heart attacks, or infection. A lot of the "lonely old" are habitually underfed and dehydrated- we just went through a series of problems on the other side of the family, where people needed moved into assisted living after they were hospitalized with problems related to not having an appetite; it turns out, I found out while we were going through the cataclysm, that one of the best things for elderly people living alone (especially recent widows and widowers) is to have someone come and talk to them while they prepare food and eat.

My DH mother just passed a few weeks ago. She was refusing to prepare food and even eat though not alone and plenty of family around. I think she was just done. Maybe thats how it is with a lot of oldsters. Wonder how many widowed are done when their love passes?

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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A big X2!!! I love him! Might have to get me some Seramas!!!

They are really neat!

 

[herbandteas]

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x2

 

[hallerlake]

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Very thin elderly people have very bad medical prospects, and do not recover well from surgery, heart attacks, or infection. A lot of the "lonely old" are habitually underfed and dehydrated- we just went through a series of problems on the other side of the family, where people needed moved into assisted living after they were hospitalized with problems related to not having an appetite; it turns out, I found out while we were going through the cataclysm, that one of the best things for elderly people living alone (especially recent widows and widowers) is to have someone come and talk to them while they prepare food and eat.

My DH mother just passed a few weeks ago. She was refusing to prepare food and even eat though not alone and plenty of family around. I think she was just done. Maybe thats how it is with a lot of oldsters. Wonder how many widowed are done when their love passes?

Your taste buds go as you age. The ones that register sweet are the last to go.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I think because we know better. We know we should not do that..eat that...behave like that...etc. I am the same way....although I carry a pretty good grudge - which I know is not right and right there is something I have to work on.

It is tough to not be our own worst critic most of the time. Sad, because we could do so much good for ourselves if instead we became our own cheering section. As far as grudges - they can be so draining on our psyche. They sap of us of our own energy. One of the best things I've ever heard was that holding a grudge or being resentful is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies. It's just not good for anyone. It's best to be good to yourself and let it go...

This, a million times: self-criticism is a tool of self awareness, but any good critic recognizes and celebrates the good in a person, or a piece of work. And by the time one has reached maturity, we need to be cheering ourselves along, there's so much immediate constant negative feedback (be it "ow, ow, ow, my hip!" or that nasty moment when you realize an emergency necessity is going to have to go on the plastic no matter how dedicated you are to living debt-free) that it's sometimes hard to remember we're worthwhile human beings. So hurray for me, I got everything fed their morning grain and was hit with an important insight about how to join the wire to wire on the Wyandotte run: I can make 3/4" split rings, no problem, only a little harder with 14 gauge galvanized wire than with #22 craft wire, given the right tools. Which I have. And I can do it sitting down in the house, YAY!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Very thin elderly people have very bad medical prospects, and do not recover well from surgery, heart attacks, or infection. A lot of the "lonely old" are habitually underfed and dehydrated- we just went through a series of problems on the other side of the family, where people needed moved into assisted living after they were hospitalized with problems related to not having an appetite; it turns out, I found out while we were going through the cataclysm, that one of the best things for elderly people living alone (especially recent widows and widowers) is to have someone come and talk to them while they prepare food and eat.

My DH mother just passed a few weeks ago. She was refusing to prepare food and even eat though not alone and plenty of family around. I think she was just done. Maybe thats how it is with a lot of oldsters. Wonder how many widowed are done when their love passes?

Yeah, that happens, too- sometimes women who've had unhappy marriages live on for longer after their husbands die than those with happy ones, not unsurprisingly. But some people just need a little conversation, a little amusment, distraction, empathy, to keep them attached to the world. One of the worst plagues of old age is boredom.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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My DH mother just passed a few weeks ago. She was refusing to prepare food and even eat though not alone and plenty of family around. I think she was just done. Maybe thats how it is with a lot of oldsters. Wonder how many widowed are done when their love passes?

Your taste buds go as you age. The ones that register sweet are the last to go.

Yup- it's one reason that geriatricians are getting a little less punitive about diets for the very old old (not a hard age, that, I think it's defined by a checklist of symptoms of physical senility) and emphasize getting sufficient calories and taking vitamins and bulk formers.