Hey folks, welcome to the new whine/general topic thread. Feel free to use this thread to discuss anything that is on your mind. Caregiving- related stuff, life after a loved one's death, your own emotional wellbeing. Whatever..........anything on your mind.
And what would chants or theme song be? "you can Depends on me"?
please don't be offended but as long as commercials feature happy clean cognizant elders people are convinced it's fine.
"When do we want it?" - When do we want what..?
I think it was Matt who did a cartoon of an Age Concern protest in Parliament Square with one protester saying to another "I came on this demo but I can't for the life of me remember why."
He did another of a doctors' march with all the placards covered in illegible slogans.
When I first read about this on runner's forums I thought they were nuts, drive screws into the bottom of my shoes? I bought the recommended #8 1/2" sheet metal screws but left them tucked away unused. When I got new shoes this spring I figured I had nothing to lose by trying it out on my oldest pair, well guess what, it works! I might add a few more since I wasn't too sure about the best placement, but they really do add traction and I don't have to worry about them falling off like those over the shoe cleats they sell. Cheap too. If you want to see a demo go to youtube and search "screws in shoes".
He would take old coffee cans and spray paint them silver to store the large metal stuff he was keeping. Hmmmm, since I don't drink coffee, does coffee still come in cans??? Anyway, I am sure my late Dad would find some use for those empty k-cups.
Oh well, some questions are pretty interesting :)
I think a lot of times the OP doesn't get the answer they are looking for or they do get the answer from the first couple of replies, or maybe they were venting and now have cold feet, so they just move on. I'd rather that than all the people who come back to berate those who bothered to answer. Or all of those threads that run on and on long after the OP has come back to tell us all they have solved the problem.
When I moved in here to care for Mom, Dad was already out of the home and in a NH and/or hospital - he never came home after that. I started the cleanout process because Dad was a bit of a hoarder in the fact that he kept everything that he thought had a use, or could possibly be used for something in the future. I cleaned out grocery bags full of old cottage cheese containers and lids (all clean, washed, etc - but decades old and never re-used), bags of old prescription bottles with the labels removed (Dad was a stickler for protecting his privacy), even bags of bags - grocery bags full of neatly flattened and folded plastic grocery bags to be used for the kitty litter, bathroom trash can,etc - but there were HUNDREDS of those. More than they could ever use in their lifetimes.
Just recently, I started working on clearing out the garage (and will resume once I can physically do so, probably in the spring). I found boxes of old rags (chewed and pooed on by mice), which is to be expected in a garage. But I also found paper grocery bags all neatly rolled down at the top, lined up on a set of shelves. ??? I opened one after another and they were all the same thing - sawdust and scraps of wood deemed to small to be useable. (That was saying a lot, because Dad thought ALL wood had value and could be used for something - proven by the stacks of it still in the garage.) Now, Dad hadn't been in that garage for almost 15 years before he died - and he's been gone almost 4 years now - so we're looking at nearly 20-year-old sawdust in paper bags. (Sitting here shaking my head....) But what am I going to do, being my father's daughter? Save it and use it for firestarter next summer when we can have bonfires in the yard again. LOL
I can see Dad eyeing up my k-cups and saying, "you know....I could use that for...."
Smhh.
I finally met today with Gerontology head at NEIU to discuss their programs. I think... I'm heading that direction. There's such a wealth of info on this site, plus once I emotionally remove myself from my personal unfortunate dysfunctional caregiving situation... I do want to help others navigate the aging process, and I've learned much about it... although the depth of info on this site amazes me at times.
Ramble. I get my Christmas shopping done. Time to send out the cards. :)
I have heard of the " Knock out game", where a group knocks a stranger unconscious. If this is a new game, there has gotta be a law!
Anyone heard of this?