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Your toughest life lessons
Posted on 4/12/18 at 9:19 am
Posted on 4/12/18 at 9:19 am
I've had many life lessons taught to me over the years, but the biggest and hardest was watching Dementia strip everything from my mom and reduced her to a person that no one knew. Share your time wisely with loved ones, because you never know what life will throw at you.
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Posted on 4/12/18 at 9:22 am to Roadkill Gumbo
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Dementia
I'm on the second round with grandparents. Wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Posted on 4/12/18 at 9:25 am to Roadkill Gumbo
Alzheimer’s in my grandma. Her entire life she treated my dad like complete dog shite. There were YEARS between when we’d ever speak with her on the phone as kids. He’s got 5 brothers and a sister and he’s her sole caretaker now (no other sibling wants to deal with her for the same reason) and he is completely paying out of pocket for all of her treatment/nursing home. I asked one time “why?” and he told me your mom is your mom no matter what, always take care of family. That one conversation truly showed me how selfless my dad is, I truly hope I can even come close to the man he is.
Posted on 4/12/18 at 9:29 am to Roadkill Gumbo
So far I’ve lived a very privileged life. My grandparents have passed away but I’ve experienced no unexpected deaths or severe illnesses with my family.
My toughest life lesson has been learning the definition of POOR the hard way - passing over opportunities repeatedly. I’ve had more opportunities than people dream of and I made it a bad habit of looking for the perfect situation. Now I’ve had two years of no opportunities and all I can do is tell people to not be like me: pursue your life’s path with confidence and handle the hard times as they come. You’ll come out better in the end.
My toughest life lesson has been learning the definition of POOR the hard way - passing over opportunities repeatedly. I’ve had more opportunities than people dream of and I made it a bad habit of looking for the perfect situation. Now I’ve had two years of no opportunities and all I can do is tell people to not be like me: pursue your life’s path with confidence and handle the hard times as they come. You’ll come out better in the end.
Posted on 4/12/18 at 9:32 am to Roadkill Gumbo
Dementia/Alzheimer's are horrible to watch unfold. You watch a strong, independent, smart, loving person forget everything and everyone around them until they have to be cared for like a child again.
One of the weirdest things is that their passing is sort of a type of mercy and relief.
One of the weirdest things is that their passing is sort of a type of mercy and relief.
Posted on 4/12/18 at 9:35 am to StringedInstruments
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My toughest life lesson has been learning the definition of POOR the hard way - passing over opportunities repeatedly. I’ve had more opportunities than people dream of and I made it a bad habit of looking for the perfect situation. Now I’ve had two years of no opportunities and all I can do is tell people to not be like me: pursue your life’s path with confidence and handle the hard times as they come. You’ll come out better in the end.
Great lesson that applies to a lot of things.
Even as a young person, there are many events that I wish I could go back and relive again. I would do things differently in a lot of cases just so I could make the most of them. I wish I could go back and not be such a shy person.
Live in the moment and get everything you can from it.
This post was edited on 4/12/18 at 9:37 am
Posted on 4/12/18 at 9:35 am to Roadkill Gumbo
Women who seem pure and trustworthy will absolutely cheat on you.
Posted on 4/12/18 at 9:36 am to Roadkill Gumbo
I took two years off from my life to spend time with my grandparents and to be their caregiver for their last two years. It got really bad. Grandma going into other people's houses at 3am, "there is mud all over my walls again" that was rough. Nothing like wiping and bathing your grandparents as they figt you and say they don't know who you are.
Luckily I found they never forgot music. So I would just play 1940's music non stop and sing. Take them to LSU games and they remember everything. My grandma forgets me but remembers a conversation she had with Shaq. Odd things like that. My grandma passed actually from an infection on her toe. My grandpa passed a few months after. It was sad, but I am so glad I did that, glad their last two years was at home with family and not in a nursing home.
I'm sacred because it's coming. I was at the doctor the other day and when answering questions. They asked medical history, and I realized my parents and grandparents have all had cancer or tumors, and I already have my dads insane BP. I really try hard not to think about all the stuff coming.
Luckily I found they never forgot music. So I would just play 1940's music non stop and sing. Take them to LSU games and they remember everything. My grandma forgets me but remembers a conversation she had with Shaq. Odd things like that. My grandma passed actually from an infection on her toe. My grandpa passed a few months after. It was sad, but I am so glad I did that, glad their last two years was at home with family and not in a nursing home.
I'm sacred because it's coming. I was at the doctor the other day and when answering questions. They asked medical history, and I realized my parents and grandparents have all had cancer or tumors, and I already have my dads insane BP. I really try hard not to think about all the stuff coming.
Posted on 4/12/18 at 9:38 am to Roadkill Gumbo
Don't put twinkies on your pizza
Posted on 4/12/18 at 9:39 am to Roadkill Gumbo
Once I thought I had to fart and I shite my pants. I learned never to trust a fart that day.
Really, I had a grandma go through Altzeimers (Sp?) and it was tough. You have to sit there and watch as one of the pillars of your life deteriorates into a zombie. By the end, she was so drugged up and miserable that the family felt a little relief in her passing. We obviously mourned her death but everyone was able to find peace in the fact that her suffering was over.
Really, I had a grandma go through Altzeimers (Sp?) and it was tough. You have to sit there and watch as one of the pillars of your life deteriorates into a zombie. By the end, she was so drugged up and miserable that the family felt a little relief in her passing. We obviously mourned her death but everyone was able to find peace in the fact that her suffering was over.
Posted on 4/12/18 at 9:45 am to Roadkill Gumbo
dont put twinkies on your pizza
Posted on 4/12/18 at 9:48 am to Roadkill Gumbo
Same thing recently happened to my grandmother. She recently passed away at the age of 91, and was for the most part coherent and in decent physical shape until a few months ago. After around Thanksgiving last year she had a fall and was hospitalized, during which time dementia had set in and she confused many people with others and had no idea who some of us were. Really tough and trying for our entire family...sucks to lose someone that way.
Posted on 4/12/18 at 9:49 am to Roadkill Gumbo
You can treat a woman wrong, not realize it, and by the time you do it can most definitely be too late.
Life isn't a Hallmark movie.
Life isn't a Hallmark movie.
This post was edited on 4/12/18 at 9:52 am
Posted on 4/12/18 at 9:54 am to jlovel7
My son is three. He's already run in front of a car and been hit and grabbed a burning hot stove top. Life can be rough.
Posted on 4/12/18 at 9:55 am to Roadkill Gumbo
I'm a kid living in El Paso. Mexican kid rides his bike by my house and as he rides by I say, for no reason other than to be a smartass, "that's a really shitty bike."
He throws the bike down, runs over and whips my arse, gets back on the bike and rides off.
My Dad watched the whole episode. When I groused that he didn't intervene, he said "you deserved what you got." And, I did.
ETA: The other boy and I became friends after that too.
He throws the bike down, runs over and whips my arse, gets back on the bike and rides off.
My Dad watched the whole episode. When I groused that he didn't intervene, he said "you deserved what you got." And, I did.
ETA: The other boy and I became friends after that too.
This post was edited on 4/12/18 at 9:56 am
Posted on 4/12/18 at 9:59 am to Roadkill Gumbo
Life is pain. Anyone telling you differently is selling something.
The older I get the more I see the truth in that statement. When we're young we can ignore it, but past a certain age, it becomes too real.
The older I get the more I see the truth in that statement. When we're young we can ignore it, but past a certain age, it becomes too real.
Posted on 4/12/18 at 9:59 am to Roadkill Gumbo
Cancer is a motherfricker.
Posted on 4/12/18 at 10:01 am to Roadkill Gumbo
A man with a hard dick will go places a man with a loaded gun won’t.
Don’t think with your dick fellas.
ETA: we are guaranteed nothing in this life. This day, the right now, it all we have. Sometimes the dawn doesn’t come. So make the most of the time you have.
Don’t think with your dick fellas.
ETA: we are guaranteed nothing in this life. This day, the right now, it all we have. Sometimes the dawn doesn’t come. So make the most of the time you have.
This post was edited on 4/12/18 at 10:03 am
Posted on 4/12/18 at 10:01 am to Roadkill Gumbo
watching my grandmother waste away into nothing. When we were younger she was active and always on the go. She had a heart attack and wouldn't do the PT to get better, so she had another one. They were giving her meds and pain killers to help, and she got hooked on them. She was always needing medication or pain pills. Doc's would write a monthly script and she would have those taken in a weeks time. My parents and grandparents would try to regulate it even so far as buying safes to keep her meds in and give out at the prescribed rate, so then she would call and ambulance and get taken to the hospital in order to get more pills. She had only seen my son one time since he was born because of the distance involved to go see them. She was staying with my parents for a couple of weeks and made plans to come down and spend a couple of days with us and her great grandson. She got pissed that my parents were regulating her pills and pitch a fit and had my grandfather come and pick her up. She never saw my son again after that. I may be kind of an a-hole but kind of wrote her off after that incident. She passed away 12/30/16. I went to the funeral and was a pallbearer but it felt like my grandmother wasn't in the casket, it seemed more like a stranger because my grandmother died in my eyes that day she turned into an addict.
Posted on 4/12/18 at 10:01 am to Roadkill Gumbo
Wear a condom.
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