Dad has been ailing for some time now. The dementia means he doesn't recall my name, or who I am unless prompted. It's pretty sad and yes, it's a difficult time.
I really appreciate your message though, that little story is touching and has a good message, one I will remember, so thank you. Really, I appreciate it.
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I'm glad it made you feel a bit better. It doesn't take away the pain from your situation tho. My friend is going thru that too right now but I never had to go thru that challenge, it can't be easy. Dementia has to be brutal on the person and their loved ones, what a thing to go thru, takes a lot of strength.
It's terrible. Hard on us because we have memories. He's blissfully unaware.
I literally 20 minutes ago got off the phone with them...Wasn't pleasant. I won't go into it here, but I think things will run their course quite quickly.
That's unfortunate especially when you can see it coming. He might not remember so easily but he's still your dad, like you said, you have memories and can see the difference from when he was in his glory. As long as he's blissfully unaware, you know that you have done your job at making sure he is happy and comfortable in is illness. I forget it's daytime there (middle of the night here but I live the vampire life)
Yes, you're right, memories are what we will hold on to. I don't want him to suffer and that's my main priority.
Lol...Vampire life. It's 7:25pm here now...Dark outside. Get's dark around 5:15 in winter.
Oh my! I don't miss those days! Currently we are in summer. Sun starts to come up around 3:30 to 4 am, it's like 5:30 am and it's usually bright sunshine by now.
Sounds good...our sun doesn't come up so early in summer, about 6am, setting at about 9:15pm. Summers are hot here though. 47°C sometimes. Usually 38-45°C during the day. Weeks on end. I was born here, but hate the heat. Kills me.
Can't have it all I guess! our sun sets at around 11 pm on the longest days, we get almost 20hrs of daylight and our heat is very tolerable at around 25-30 degrees in the summer, we do get a few days of crazy heat but not like what you have. It hardly rains here so it's very dry. Being so north it's all very short lived. In the winter we end up with 20 hours of darkness, it's depressing and it gets very cold.