Michael J Cocks

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Are you retarded? Go to the frickin hospital now you idiot!!

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Idk. I’d argue that it’s equally retarded to go to a hospital, that’s already overran, undermanned, and under resourced, so that you can sit there for 6-8 hours, then they’ll have him piss in a cup, and tell him he’s basically dehydrated.

He’s not in pain or distress. Seems irrational to bog down an ER with something like this…. But maybe that’s just me.

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You just started drinking more water to fix the issue?

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Well to be fair, I did a whole lot more than that, like a complete overhaul with diet and medications. What I did was extreme and basically out of desperation because I spent so many years taking more medicines, or doing less of this or more of that(after so many stones/lab work etc.) and that shite obviously wasn’t working. So I started by fasting, quitting a whole lot of medicines(like ALL of them) cold turkey, and basically a zero tolerance approach to anything I felt was contributing to it.

But the basic summary of how I’ve maintained and wayyyyy improved my health, is pretty close to a gallon of water a day, and to start my day, I do my own little electrolyte mix, with magnesium and pink Himalayan salt. I stay away from Gatorade/store made electrolyte and energy drinks etc.

But I can almost guarantee you, if you cut out most of the NOT water type drinks you’re likely partaking, and increase your water intake, you’ll get way ahead of this situation.

How old are you?

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At least he’s 84. As a quadriplegic, he’s not going to life much longer. Imagine that happening to someone at 20.

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I mean yeah, it sucks for anybody. But just the moment he’s living in, he barely sleeps, and anytime it’s just me and him, he’s asking “why?” And I obviously dance around it and say nothing but positive reinforcing things, and he just keeps asking “why can’t I just end this?” He always starts crying, and like a coward, I always tap out and say some shite like, “it’s ok buddy, you have so many people that love you!” Then I hurry out of the room to let the family know they can go back in…. So that he can continue to fake smile for them, and I don’t have to focus on HIS misery.

But he’s present in this state like 20 hours a day. He barely sleeps, and gets very few pain or anxiety meds, definitely not anything to pacify him or distract him from the prison he’s in.

Idk, I’ve seen this a million times, from 18 year olds to him, and this one hits me the hardest. Just seems like he lived a great life, worked so hard taking care of everyone, did everything damn near perfect… and his final days are him being locked inside of his useless body, and totally aware of everything. He could live like this for years.

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I’ll start with quadriplegia

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Definitely this…. But making it that much worse: let’s pretend that hypothetically, you’re an 84 year old man that’s still 100% active and cognitive, relatively no serious medical issues besides controlled hypertension. Still driving, and proudly taking care of his yard like it’s part of a country club. Then you take a crazy fall, exiting the shower, and flukishly land in a way, that leaves you paralyzed below the chest.

So now you’ve still got all of your faculties(mentally), but since you’re the patriarch of an entire family, and adored by literally everyone, you have to lay in the bed, essentially in a prison that happens to be your body, and death doesn’t look as close as it should be. Dude has to sit there and pretend to be happy in this existence, because at any given time, you have 6-8 family members holding a vigil at your bedside, telling you “how blessed and lucky you are to still be alive!” Never mind you’re still negotiating the fact that you lost 100% of your independence 2 months ago, but the doctors are amazed by how healthy you are, besides the fact you can’t move anything besides your face, no longer allowed to eat/drink etc. so the only pleasures you had left as a human, are now gone.

Literally just trapped. But still forced to put on a smile and act happy, so that the family that adores you, won’t remember you as an angry old man that just wants to die because he lost all his physical powers.

Almost 15 years in the medical field now, and I’ve seen so many unfortunate events…… but I can still think of nothing worse than this. :wah:

lol dude just kept playing “Best I ever had” on a loop! :lol:

I think you have to like Season 1, by about episode 3 or 4. If season 1 doesn’t grab you, then it’s unlikely the rest of them will. This was a show that built off of each season, and had some of the greatest main character arch’s ever…… but again, if you aren’t vested in any of the main characters in season 1, you prob aren’t gonna give a shite how their stories play out

Thank you! I’m gonna watch it tonight. :cheers:

“Hey, Dammit! Stop stabbing your brother!”

I took the Raiders :angry: :yack:

This is your famuhly Mackle. You have to protect your famuhlee!

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Absolutely not. My wife and kids have given me more joy in life than I could ever have had without them.

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Me too! I just literally reflected back, and my life has been exponentially better with them in it. I really LEGIT don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything, but especially none of my old hobbies/habits.