RIP Princess Leia

She had a stroke while planning her funeral... I think

 

Same bad heroin supplier, perhaps....?

 

Perhaps, I mean, what are the odds?

 

Well, the good news for things like tina is that technology is nearing the point whereby they can create robotic sex dolls for lonely, sociopathic froot loops like tina to bang away at in the comfort of their own basements.

To each its own!

 

Pretty high, actually. When an elderly person looses a loved one, it can have a devastating effect on their own survival. When a LONG married couple looses their cherished partner, very often they die within 6 months due to sorrow. I can assure you that would certainly happen to me. I can see that extending to parent/child relationships as well.

 

I've heard you can literally die from a broken heart.

 

I agree.
I saw what happened to my mom when we lost my brother at sea off of the USS Midway, as an aviator. She was never the same. But she held on because she still had two teens left to raise. Love is a strange thing, both heaven and hell.

 

Yeah that must have been difficult to deal with. When I lost my little bro at 8 years old I was about to start high school, changed my whole perspective on life, it was hard.

 

O Barry... we all know you'd just upgrade one the whores, from your stable, to Barry's main b!tch

 

Hey, if it works....go with it!!!

 

Oh man, that is devastating... 8 years old.... I imagine your parents have been sleepwalking through life since then. Not only did you lose your bro, but you lost any joy that had been in your parents I imagine.

 

Yeah, it crushed my Mother's spirit, never the same again. We had different Dads but his Dad's health declined rather badly shortly after and he was never really the same. As for me, I internalized it. Didn't talk about it much. But i'm at peace with it now.

 

Saw Rogue One last night. Won't say any more except that in view of Carrie Fisher's passing, the movie's ending was special.

 

Lost my Dad in March of this year. He was 86. My Mom (84), who's legally blind, just keeps on going like it never happened. She drives us nuts, complains all the time, fusses over everything, and is extremely negative. My Dad was just the opposite.
The burden of her care and financial requirements fall primarily on me. This is a common thing for our generation. Sending your kids on their way, you're nearing retirement and now must care for the grandparents. A reversal of roles as well. Sorry about getting off on a tangent...

 

Yes it is indeed our generations "cross to carry". While not quite there yet, my in-laws, both age 92, are beginning now to present us with challenges due to humanity achieving very old ages. I gladly took my mom-in-law to the endocrinologist last week; she needed another set of ears to listen to how to take her diabetes meds. As I spent a career in pharma, I volunteered to be of help. It needs to be done, as it will also be done for us, probably. Unless we pull the plug on ourselves prior to becoming a burden. I plan to do so, but not until I have dropped in on my last wave........

 

Good on you though, even if it's hard sometimes. It's an admirable thing to take care of one's parent or parents later in their lives.

I would do it for my mom, though I hope I don't have to do. My dad has been dead for what will be 10 years this year. He was only 56. His younger brother died earlier that year around his 47th birthday. I'll be 47 in March of 2018. A lot of the male's on my dad's side didn't live very long. Good thing is my mom is still fairly young, she's turning 65 in March and still in good shape and works out most days. While I'm not super healthy, I do count my calories to the best of my ability and maintain my weight. It's highly likely that I'll never have kids, nor a wife to help take care of me in advanced age. I've got younger siblings all between 4 and 11 years younger, but they all live in different states and far away from me.

Between that and the short lifespan of some of the male's in my family, I've made a conscious effort to keep myself in good shape as I get older.

 

Antidepressants are a miracle drug. Depression and B12 deficiency are missed diagnoses in elderly. Don't assume it's "just aging" or "just grief".

 

For my Mom or for me?

 

Last resort in both instances, but especially for mom (and especially the antipsychotics for mom...).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10513851

 

Time for your meds, Flo.