for many of us, this is worth reading.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324677204578185352693016018.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324677204578185352693016018.html
good call, doc - thx! (several long-time primers are discussing this important - and timely, to them - issue via email as we speak.)let me bring this back for reference http://www.nsxprime.com/forum/showt...ing-parents-need-help?highlight=aging+parents
Happy holidays to all primers and their family's.
It's a year down the road since my last post here. My parents are still here but getting worse (age related).
Today my Dad says to me "the car is stuck in park, I can't shift it into gear and I don't know what's wrong with it".? The car is automatic.
I went and started the car and put it into reverse with no issues. There is nothing wrong with the car. He askes me"what was wrong?. I answered nothing and he looks at me so puzzled...
His brain isn't thinking right and I believe it is dementia. He wont go to any doctors ans insists nothing is wrong...
Mom is the same way. Stubborn and think they can still function the same and they can't. They constantly repeat things they say and forget things that they just did, or did the day before. Dad won't stop smoking and can barely breathe and Mom is in lots of pain from arthritis they are able to do less and less for themselves as the days go by.
I'm helping them the best I can but it's difficult as I said before.
I don't mean to ramble, but thanks for reading (listening in a way).
Thanks,
-DREW-