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Desley (Cat fosterer)
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Mar 17, 2019 08:40AM
I'm glad that you managed to find a place in a nice home for your dad, and that he seems to be happy there, maybe one of the comments is right and boredom was playing quite a large part. I also think people who can work in homes like that are amazing, I can't imagine it is an easy job at times.
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Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "I'm glad that you managed to find a place in a nice home for your dad, and that he seems to be happy there, maybe one of the comments is right and boredom was playing quite a large part. I also thi..."I so agree. It must be hard working in a place like that. As for boredom. Yes. They’re like kids and just as kids get to the point where they are very ready to go to school, so dementia patients become ready for a similarly institutional kind of life with lots of other ‘kids’ to interact with etc.
Cheers
MTM
Ooh I nearly forgot. New blog post. This doesn’t go live until 12.54pm UK time but Wordpress is on a different time to whatever we’re on now so it may not go live until 1.54pmhttps://mtmcguire.co.uk/2019/03/23/uh...
Having read that blog post Mary I'm convinced we share an ancestor or two. Probably a short lived one!
Jud wrote: "Having read that blog post Mary I'm convinced we share an ancestor or two. Probably a short lived one!"Mwahaahhahargh! Glad you enjoyed it. So ... does that mean you are also a member of the Klutz family! ;-)
M.T. wrote: "Jud wrote: "Having read that blog post Mary I'm convinced we share an ancestor or two. Probably a short lived one!"Mwahaahhahargh! Glad you enjoyed it. So ... does that mean you are also a member..."
Absolutely! I'm forever spilling and breaking and knocking things over. So much so that when someone else did it I got the blame first as the most likely suspect.
I managed to fracture my leg while wearing plimsolls (I think that's your word for what we call guddies) and playing pictionary.
Well everyone knows you shouldn't wear gutties to play Pictionary!
Clogs with steel toecaps every time!It's the only way to be safe
Rosemary (grooving with the Picts) wrote: "Well everyone knows you shouldn't wear gutties to play Pictionary!"Is that how you spell it correctly? We say it with a very definite 'D' sound in the middle. Right enough, we say "budder" but it's spelt butter. I should have known better!
OMG Jud! Mwahahahrgh. I wear fitflops but the surf sandal type so there is a couple of inches of sole around either side of my feet to protect them from the things I walk into.
Think I am caught up now, all good blog posts, although the cats weren't impressed at the amount of laughter! Not sure you should use the blow torch again though. You are right about us constantly judging ourselves against other people and forgetting that money and 'stuff' doesn't always make us happy.
Yes, perhaps it's time to buy a new blowtorch?
Mwahahahrgh, Jud, New blowtorch has been purchased and Desley glad you caught up, Jim delighted you enjoyed.I’m on holiday now which is why there was a week off and Jim is taking care of things in my absence this Saturday!
Cheers
MTM
Live! It's positively bursting with custardly goodness ;-)
This week I am taking a bit of a risk and posting about my own writing, there's a poll too, so I'm looking forward to finding out how Desley's cats vote! ;-)https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2019/04/27/wh...
Cheers
MTM
well I've voted and I'll share it about a bit, see if you can get any more
M.T. wrote: "This week I am taking a bit of a risk and posting about my own writing, there's a poll too, so I'm looking forward to finding out how Desley's cats vote! ;-)https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2019/04/27/wha..."
Sadly they refuse to come near me, so they can't get to the computer!
Desley, I hope the cats returned!Here's another completely bats one on the topic of what my life is like. There's even a picture of me.
https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2019/05/04/oh...
This weeks is kind of sad, although I worked through a lot of stuff writing it and feel a great deal better. https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2019/05/11/tr...
M.T. wrote: "This weeks is kind of sad, although I worked through a lot of stuff writing it and feel a great deal better. https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2019/05/11/tr..."
Excellent post - so much insight.
Don't be too sad - if you could have kept your Dad home, you would have. And these changes may not be because of where he is physically, but because of what is going on in his mind. It is horribly unfair, and always will be.
I do not understand why so little progress has been made in a disease that affects, they say, half of those who live to 85. HALF.
I was angry when it took my grandmother, angry when it took my mother - where is the research that actually solves this?
And yeah, I see what this implies for me, and hope I have my Daddy's genes - Mother always said I did.
HALF. It's enough to make you want to throw things.
Alicia wrote: "M.T. wrote: "This weeks is kind of sad, although I worked through a lot of stuff writing it and feel a great deal better. https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2019/05/11/tr..."
Excellent post - so much in..."
I hear you. And genetically, I’m looking down the same barrel as you! ;-) It’s not glamorous and nobody cares about old people. I’m pretty fucked off about it myself.
Mother always said I took after my Daddy - so I'm hoping; he was 91 when he died, and still himself. I so hope for that.My maternal line is pretty dismal. A long life is not a gift when it has 15 years of dementia at the end. Strong heart, but something horrible took my beloved Mother and Mamina.
Alicia wrote: "Mother always said I took after my Daddy - so I'm hoping; he was 91 when he died, and still himself. I so hope for that.My maternal line is pretty dismal. A long life is not a gift when it has 15..."
I hope you take after your dad then, too. Fingers and toes crossed.
My husband has the exact same circumstances - his dad lived to 97 more or less hale and hearty, and his mother to 91 but had dementia.There is no question in my mind that even though he looks a lot like his mom, he takes after his dad in most things. We'll see.
Maybe they'll find a cure so it won't matter. I just don't see much progress there, for all their research funds.
Actually, the research funds haven't amounted to much, relatively speaking, as Sir Terry Pratchett was shocked to discover when he was diagnosed :(
They have a lot more research funds than the disease I've had for 29+ years, ME/CFS - which gets practically no funds plus half of doctors still think it's all in your head.Alzheimer's affects a lot of people - but they are older, and not only get ignored in general, but are not often included in studies.
I read that if you reach 85, your chances are 50%. Not good numbers.
I think they do more research on the glamorous stuff or the kinds of things that are going to end the human race, like Ebola. Ho hum ...
M.T. wrote: "I think they do more research on the glamorous stuff or the kinds of things that are going to end the human race, like Ebola. Ho hum ..."
Actually, Ebola and its friends, not so much ...
1) Ebola mostly affects poor people
2) People who contract it recover, or die.
From the pharmaceutical company's viewpoints, the big money is in treatments for chronic conditions contracted by the wealthy, and in drugs that hook people who start taking them.
David wrote: "M.T. wrote: "I think they do more research on the glamorous stuff or the kinds of things that are going to end the human race, like Ebola. Ho hum ..."
Actually, Ebola and its friends, not so muc..."
We need more rich people to get Alzheimer's then I guess. And arthritis, I could do with some really, really rich people getting arthritis. ;-)
Jim wrote: "but does it so well :-)"So glad you enjoyed it Jim, it was very much done on the hoof so I’m now basking in that, I-love-it-when-a-plan-comes-together feeling!
Cheers
MTM
M.T. wrote: "Jim wrote: "but does it so well :-)"So glad you enjoyed it Jim, it was very much done on the hoof so I’m now basking in that, I-love-it-when-a-plan-comes-together feeling!
Cheers
MTM"
Seriously I've discovered that the blogs people seem to like best ARE those done on the hoof.
Even the Tallis Steelyard blogs where you would have thought that time spent planning the story, mulling over details, and doing clever stuff like that would have been vital
But apparently not
Works like that with painting too. Sometimes the quickest, least “worked on” pieces go first. I reckon folk can pick up on the immediacy, or the honesty, of them? Can be a bit annoying though when you feel like “but that’s not my BEST WORK!!”
Rosemary (grooving with the Picts) wrote: "Works like that with painting too. Sometimes the quickest, least “worked on” pieces go first. I reckon folk can pick up on the immediacy, or the honesty, of them? Can be a bit annoying though when ..."I'm glad it's not just me :-)
Jim wrote: "I'm glad it's not just me :-)..."I tell myself the ones that flow like warmed honey from the rock were worked on extensively in the subconscious before I ever heard of them.
Makes me feel better somehow.
Clearly, it’s a very common feeling! It’s the same with funny too. I wrote one the other week which I thought was hilarious but it didn’t get many comments.
Had a tough week, culminating in Dad dying. It was very peaceful and I blogged about the week here: https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2019/05/25/th...
Here’s a return to the blog ... more stuff about my Dad. I hope you enjoy ... https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2019/06/22/th...
Cheers
MTM
You were lucky to have the parents you did. I had that kind, too, and it is such a gift.
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