On May 20, 3:40*am, "
wrote:
On May 19, 1:57 pm, Swingman wrote:

Sorry to hear about your folks. Spent Mother's Day with Mom half
remembering that she had kids, then struggling with which ones of those
present were hers.

The lucid moments were worth it, but they are getting farther and
farther apart. All the best to both your mother and father, and you two,
to boot.

Thanks to everyone, up and down in this thread for the good wishes.
It was Friday, Saturday, and 1/2 Sunday in the hosptal. *Got Dad home
late Sunday, he fell flat on his back, tangled up in his walker, and
was back in the hospital less than 12 hours later.

Now we are finding he may have fractured vertebrae. *He is pushing 83,
so no operations. *He has cancer, heart disease, and about 1/8 of his
lung capacity. *He is too fragile to even run some of the tests on him
now.

Oddly, the best suggestion the combined brain trust can come up with
is to (literally....) "super" glue his fractures together with some
kind of epoxy. *Other than that, nothing.

So now we wait and see. *I have a few more full days at the hospital
as they have no advocate or anyone to speak coherently on their
behalf. *Mom is slowly losing it, and she is at the point where she
wandered off in the emergency room a couple of times while we were
there waiting for the docs.

Gonna be a long week.

Once again, thanks to all for the good wishes. *I will pass them on to
him telling it came from "the internet". *He will get a charge out of
it. *He isn't sure what the internet is, but he knows "all the kids
are nuts about it" these days and everyone is "on it" but him.

Robert

Dude, all kibbutzing aside, Ang's and my prayers are with you and your
family.
Ang and I are dealing with this stuff all the time, although we're
very fortunate that my parents' physical problems are minimal at the
moment, they are both 88 but can things happen very quickly at that
stage in their lives.

Grab a bourbon and a cigar and hang on tight.

(small) r