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Post by tonyroma on Aug 5, 2024 16:28:53 GMT -5
I wasn’t going to share this, my wife appears to be in the beginning stages of dementia. It kills me to see her slip. Constantly asking the same questions, finding unpaid and unopened bills in the strangest places it can just get a bit overwhelming at times. have her checked out for a UTI, I thought the same of my wife several years back, she begrudgingly took the tests for dementia and was good. She had a bad UTI and in older women it just effs them all up mentally Same with my Grandma, I thought she was losing it quick, turned out to be a bad UTI.
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 5, 2024 17:13:34 GMT -5
Tony right now it’s not diagnosed, but I cannot allow her to drive anymore. She was getting lost going to places we have gone for decades. So something is going on. Right now we are dealing with my daughter who just got out of rehab from 2 strokes.She just had our 6th grandchild. 3 months old. I’m afraid I’m a bit stretched thin at the moment. Thanks for asking Sir, I am praying for you and your family. 🙏
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Post by madm002 on Aug 6, 2024 13:09:40 GMT -5
Praying for you SWD. You got your hands full brother.
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Post by slough on Aug 6, 2024 13:56:30 GMT -5
Prayers SWD
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Post by gardawg on Aug 6, 2024 14:49:08 GMT -5
“People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong for too long.”
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Post by conchydong on Aug 6, 2024 15:05:34 GMT -5
I think I cry more as a senior than I did when I was a baby. I often cry when I hear the National Anthem being played.
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Post by One Man Gang on Aug 6, 2024 15:42:20 GMT -5
My kids don't think I have tear ducts, if you really want to know.
I am probably just a big, crying bitch when you get down to it, but I'm good at internalizing it.
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Post by gardawg on Aug 6, 2024 15:47:04 GMT -5
My kids don't think I have tear ducts, if you really want to know. I am probably just a big, crying bitch when you get down to it, but I'm good at internalizing it. all those tears you hold back as a young man will come flooding out when you get to be an old man ...
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Post by PolarsStepdad on Aug 6, 2024 17:42:54 GMT -5
Last call on the radio is gut wrenching. Especially if you knew the person. I was a pallbearer for a kid that was like a son to my family and his last call over the County Radio about took me to my knees. I still have a hard time hearing them today.
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Post by One Man Gang on Aug 6, 2024 22:06:20 GMT -5
Last call on the radio is gut wrenching. Especially if you knew the person. I was a pallbearer for a kid that was like a son to my family and his last call over the County Radio about took me to my knees. I still have a hard time hearing them today. Yeah, that's a tough one. My brother in law was checked out like that 12 years ago with the Coral Springs FD. Pancreatic cancer, age 45. Really hard one to get through.
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Post by luapnor on Aug 6, 2024 22:37:04 GMT -5
Me and the boy did the WW2 museum in New Orleans a few months ago. They have an exact replica of Anne Franks house. That portion of the museum leads directly into the concentration camp exhibit. I took one step in and had to turn around. Evil does exist in this world. It made me cry. Walking thru the real one in 2016 in Amsterdam made me cry. Have tickets to visit it again in September. It will make me cry again. Man's inhumanity to man makes me cry.
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Post by slough on Aug 7, 2024 7:48:45 GMT -5
Last call on the radio is gut wrenching. Especially if you knew the person. I was a pallbearer for a kid that was like a son to my family and his last call over the County Radio about took me to my knees. I still have a hard time hearing them today. Been there and also last roll call by military is gut wrenching.
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 8, 2024 16:16:27 GMT -5
Have a hard time visiting the cemetery. One section is almost all family
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Post by swampdog on Aug 8, 2024 17:26:36 GMT -5
I can tear up pretty quickly over kids hurting. Several years ago we toured the Holocaust museum in DC. That really got me. My wife had to bail on me when she saw all the children’s shoes. Then when a LEO loses their life, and I hear about their family left without them, it makes me tearfully sad. I can’t understand man’s inhumanity to man.
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Post by mackeralsnatcher on Aug 8, 2024 19:46:55 GMT -5
I am not a crier. Never have been. Being a "man" it was instilled in me from a very early age to not show fear or get emotional. You deal with what is happening and handle it. My Military service reinforced this. Last time I remember crying was when my wife's suspected breast cancer needle biopsy came back negative. Before that? I couldn't tell you.
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