Elderly parents or relatives to care for and/or worry about? This is the place for you.
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Jun 2019
12:32pm, 12 Jun 2019
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Wriggling Snake
I speak to my dad every day, sounds well, he does tell me the same things days on end but that is ok. Yesterday I mentioned you can get some of the Women's World Cup football on the Red button. He had no idea what that was...so then we had half a hours worth of shenanigans with his TV finding where the equivalent of the Red button is via his cable TV. Turns out it is channel 991...he is as happy as Larry today...3 whole games to watch! |
Jun 2019
4:38pm, 13 Jun 2019
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macca 53
Just back from ministering to FiL. He’s getting much weaker every week - I really don’t know how he’s still with us 😪. He has pressure sores on his heels and I acted a “dirty nurse” to the district nurse when she came to redress them I can touch my thumb and first finger around his calf which is heartbreaking 😪
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Jun 2019
5:06pm, 13 Jun 2019
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Grast_girl
Oh macca...
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Jun 2019
5:41pm, 13 Jun 2019
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EvilPixie
So sad Thoughts with you |
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Jun 2019
5:43pm, 13 Jun 2019
16,395 posts
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EvilPixie
Anyone heard from nellers lately?
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Jun 2019
6:00pm, 13 Jun 2019
10,925 posts
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Badger
Brief conversation in comments on his training - he's back doing indoor rowing and trying to stay in a routine on that for the moment, and I can see that is keeping up the last few days.
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Jun 2019
6:01pm, 13 Jun 2019
34,312 posts
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Nellers
As if by magic........ News from the Old Country today is that dad is actually surprising everyone with his powers of recovery. He’s back on solid food (although needing help to eat it), his pneumonia is on the way out and yesterday we found out that the physio has been with him the previous couple of days getting him up out of bed, again with significant help. None of us thought he’d get this far at all, let alone so soon. Maybe he’s got more fight in him than we thought. |
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Jun 2019
6:15pm, 13 Jun 2019
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Badger
That's good!
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Jun 2019
6:47pm, 13 Jun 2019
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Little Miss Happy
Sorry to hear that macca. Sounds positive Nellers. |
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Jun 2019
7:03pm, 13 Jun 2019
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EvilPixie
Pleased to see someone else join me on the poorly dad rollercoaster I never thought mine would hear me finish outlaw let alone see June |
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