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di3004

showergirl wrote: »

Hi Everyone

Sorry I haven't been on today but had some trouble with internet. Thank god it is back on now.
Sorry to hear about your Dad Di. Hope he can get home in time for xmas.

Thanks eveyone for your support, wasn't too good yesterday as I was a bit uncomfortable. (Felt like I was having bad period pains). But I am feeling much better today. Just have to wait to see what the results are

Thank you Showergirl.;)
Bless you, feeling for you hunni, you have enough on your plate to deal with.
Hope your feeling better now, and keeping everything crossed for you.
:A;)XXXX

pinknico

Sorry your dad and your family are having an unsettled time Di, hope things calm down and go more smoothly soon.xx

Showergirl glad you are feeling more comfortable today and hope you get your results soon.X

Paulinweston you are a very brave and funny man and I take my hat off to YOU.XX

My brother has managed to contract swine flu ( no idea how!) but the Tamiflu has startd working and he is on the mend, it did mean he had to miss my birthday celebrations which was sad. He lost his hair during chemo but did not have much to start with!!


Love to you all .
(and any lurkers needing support and advice we are all friendly and love a chat!)

di3004

Thank you as well Pinknico.;)

Sending you and your brother, all your family my love.
Hope your brother is recovering from all this okay hunni.:AXXX

kpwll

I wish all of you with health worries, either your own or family, the very best and that you all hear good news soon. My love and thoughts are with you. Cwtches all round.
Karen xx

di3004

Hi Karen
Hope your okay.;)

and hope life been treating you well.:A

Still very windy in Wales isn't it?:eek:
I hate it and keep thinking those tall tree that are outlined outside our houses are going to get blown down on top of the house.....:o, I'm the worlds biggest baby lol :rotfl::D.

Take care Karen, and catch you soon.

Di
XXX

pinknico

Hello and thank you Karen, hope all is well with you.xx

kpwll

Thank you both, I'm well but my son has had food poisoning, NOT MY COOKING HONEST, and my youngest grandson Callum has a nasty cold and cough.

It was my stepmother's 90th birthday yesterday so I put on an 'open house' at her home yesterday afternoon. She was afraid that with the weather no-one would turn up. All of her friends are around her age or gone, so I surprised her with a Special Delivery of 3 of them. She was crying, they were crying and I was crying. Plenty of people turned up and a good time was had by all.

Hey pink, you a Freddie fan as well?

Karen xx

di3004

kpwll wrote: »

Thank you both, I'm well but my son has had food poisoning, NOT MY COOKING HONEST, and my youngest grandson Callum has a nasty cold and cough.

It was my stepmother's 90th birthday yesterday so I put on an 'open house' at her home yesterday afternoon. She was afraid that with the weather no-one would turn up. All of her friends are around her age or gone, so I surprised her with a Special Delivery of 3 of them. She was crying, they were crying and I was crying. Plenty of people turned up and a good time was had by all.

Hey pink, you a Freddie fan as well?

Karen xx

Hi Karen,
Bless your son and grandson, hope they get better soon.

There are lots of colds and coughs about isn't there?

Awe that was lovely for your stepmum, and 90 WOW, lovely.:A
Glad there was a good turn out, that is wonderful.:T:T
I bet it was such an emotional but a happy time.:beer: XXXX

busbyh

Hi di, so sorry to hear about your dad.I know exactly what you are all going through. My mother in law went through the same. She went from a very fit 70 year old, always out at her Bingo etc, to just a shadow of her former self.
She starting to do and say things that were completely out of character, and would be so insulting at times:eek: but she just didn't know what she was doing.

There were also some funny times with her, as she went back to being a young girl again, and was after all the men at the assessment ward really had to take her in hand, as she couldn't keep her hands off them. Even the male staff had to be careful when they passed her;) she actually told us she had just got engaged to one of them:D I was like the mum;) My husband was rather bemused by it, couldn't see the funny side at all.

Strange really, as I did find a poem when we were sorting out her things, apparantly it was found by a nurse, in the locker of someone who had suffered from Dementia. very sad, but also very true and helps to understand what they are going through.

It started with her going back to her baby years, and teens and so on.


Is is hard watching them esp when there are days they just don't seem to know who you are. It it also so hard getting the meds at the correct level.

it's a very hard time and affects all the family.

I could post it up sometime, but maybe it would upset you too much

di3004

busbyh wrote: »

Hi di, so sorry to hear about your dad.I know exactly what you are all going through. My mother in law went through the same. She went from a very fit 70 year old, always out at her Bingo etc, to just a shadow of her former self.
She starting to do and say things that were completely out of character, and would be so insulting at times:eek: but she just didn't know what she was doing.

There were also some funny times with her, as she went back to being a young girl again, and was after all the men at the assessment ward really had to take her in hand, as she couldn't keep her hands off them. Even the male staff had to be careful when they passed her;) she actually told us she had just got engaged to one of them:D I was like the mum;) My husband was rather bemused by it, couldn't see the funny side at all.

Strange really, as I did find a poem when we were sorting out her things, apparantly it was found by a nurse, in the locker of someone who had suffered from Dementia. very sad, but also very true and helps to understand what they are going through.

It started with her going back to her baby years, and teens and so on.


Is is hard watching them esp when there are days they just don't seem to know who you are. It it also so hard getting the meds at the correct level.

it's a very hard time and affects all the family.

I could post it up sometime, but maybe it would upset you too much

Hiya hun
Thanks for this hunni:A.

My dad is 68 now and was diagnosed with dementia just after he turned 60, before that though he suffered with encephalitis which as you know affects the brain, so at first his consultants put it down to this and not dementia.
Yet he has been suffering with illnesses all his life really, with a number of health problems, a huge list so I won't go through them all.......:o, but they seem to think this have been an impact on the dementia.

Dad talks a lot about when he was small and often asks for him mum, she died a few years back now, but he still asks, so a lot of it is about his childhood.

Dad carries his coin tin around with him, not a lot in it, just bits of change, and he says its his wage from the coal pits, as this was his job from the age of 15, before that he was sent to work on farms from the age of 9, after coming in from school, but his dad although his dad was an Army Clerk taken every penny from dad, it was always my dad, and not his brothers, so now dad clings on to his pennies.


He did have a sad upbringing really, it was torture for him, and now he cries when he talks about it, thinking he's that age again.

It can be difficult can it, when they say things out of the question, back last year they had a visitor who was quite obese, dad yelled "Blimey love your so big, are you sure you will fit your A**E on that sofa".......:eek::o, and things like that, then next minute back to himself.

Sorry you have had to go through seeing your mum in law going through this as well hun.

The most difficult part with dad at the moment is with him not sleeping at nights and wandering, where he will just go off, if anyone tried to stop him he would go off on one.
A difficult one again, because he was always a very hardworking outdoor man over the years, so he does not understand what is going on....

Been recently informed as well that a mate of our family age 43 been diagnosed with Picks disease, yet another disease of the brain, she is already in a bad way and in the opposite unit to dad.
She once went out with my brother, many years ago.

Yeah please post up that poem hun, I really don't mind at all, cheers so much.:A XXXX