re: Adulting really sucks at times

Experiencing same thing with my grandparents. Both are touch and go right now almost notebook style. Sad but beautiful

T&P...Best to your mom and dad.....and you.

Tube is out and she is breathing on her own. Thanks for all the prayers and I know we are not put of the woods out getting there.

I know I am very fortunate to have both my parents still alive in there 80s.

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Too many want to pawn this stuff out to places where their family is treated like someone in the drive thru at Popeyes

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Nobody should be treated like that, but sometimes caring for them at home is not an option. For the last four months of her life, my mother was bedridden most of the time, couldn't feed herself and was frequently hallucinating. She needed a level of care we couldn't give her.

My father is supposed to get out of inpatient rehab for congestive heart failure later this week after being hospitalized twice since November and having a pacemaker put in. Cognitively he's fine, but he's still pretty weak and needs a lot of help. Just standing up out of a chair is an effort for him. I worry if we'll be able to handle it.

It sucks. It is hard, but sit back and think about it and getting to 80, both of them, they did pretty good.

I did the same thing will my parents back in 2019. Mom passed away in August and Dad passed away less than 2 months later in October.

It actually increases chance of respiratory infections so no thanks

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I just got word that one of my friends whom I've known since college fell off a ladder has a brain bleed and isn't expected to survive. Quite the gut punch on a Monday.
Yes, getting older is really depressing at times.

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watching my 80 year old mom with tubes in her is not easy.

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It’s probably pretty tough on her too.

Split2874

There will be times when you don't think you can take much more. That's when you find out you can. Godspeed to you and your family.