Where in the World is Bob Saget?

[acishere]

I forget things too, which really scares me. How old is your mom?

62

I think the cancer medication is a major cause of the problems she is having. She would not forget where she is going in the middle of driving to somewhere before this.

 

[Cesar R M]

Glad to hear all went well, and that y'all even got to see an air show with the Blue Angels!
I do LOVES me some airplanes and air shows!
Still hopin' to get some form of pilots license one of these days...

Reminds me, I always had dreamed to be a singer.. or a pilot..
funny how things go.. because I ended being deaf and that's two strikes in a single row.

Dang, if my car weren't a 2013, I'd get a new one.
You are all way to close to figuring out my true identity.

Arent you an old england queen?

I feel like Nissan should pay us for all the wonderful promotion we give your car.

Nissan Altimas for everyone!
now we can getaway while we getaway!

 

[Cesar R M]

Hopefully, there is one for those that take care of their fathers as well. I hate being left out!

You'd have to wait for your turn

It's easy for daughters to care for their fathers.
It's the mother/daughter dynamic that is a little more difficult to navigate.

sounds a lot like sons to dads.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Creating a Disney family, or how I managed to waste 20 minutes today...

 

[Cesar R M]

Ex or not, that must be very hard for you, too.

My dad (as you all know!) passed away from cancer at the age of 62. His illness was approx. 4 months from diagnosis to death, although he suffered tremendously for 3 months prior to the cancer confirmation.

After he died (actually during his illness), my mom fell into a beer bottle. When we finally convinced her to move in with us, she weighed 92 lbs and was drinking up to 18 beers a day. And that's Canadian beer!

Thankfully, she had a medical incident which hospitalized her for a week, and was able to dry out 4 months prior to her passing, also at the age of 62.

But boy, oh boy, let me tell you, those first few drunken months that she lived with us were awful. I would hear her stumbling around and falling at all hours of the night, and have to get up and physically put one hand on each hip and walk her to the bathroom. All she wanted to do was drink until she passed out, so she could "dream about him", she said. The situation was pretty difficult. It didn't help that I was so angry with her all the time.

I remember her saying to me one time, "You wouldn't be treating your father this way", and me responding, "My father wouldn't be acting this way".

Good times.

Before she moved in with us, I had high hopes of how things would go. I thought she would join us for dinner, watch t.v. with us, maybe play cards once in a while. Things didn't quite go that way.

Clearly they were better once she stopped drinking, but that's when she decided not to deal with her abdominal aortic aneurysm, and just let nature take its course. By cancelling the surgery, she knew that there was a 20% chance of dying within the first year, 40% in the second ... up to 100% mortality rate within 5 years.

She died less than 2 months after the cancelled operation.

I have since come to say that she died the same day my dad did - it just took us 18 months to bury her.

Each situation is different, and yet they're all the same. Watching your parents, your heroes from childhood, decline sucks. Plain and simple.

it is interesting to find how many people die of cancer.. seriously..
we're counting the majority considering the posts.
My father succumbed to cancer a few year ago as well, started in his liver and went to spread everywhere.
I somehow survived.. as I had cancer when I was just 8-9 years old.
not exactly a fun thing to suffer and then see other disappear by the same thing.

 

[JenniferS]

it is interesting to find how many people die of cancer.. seriously..
we're counting the majority considering the posts.
My father succumbed to cancer a few year ago as well, started in his liver and went to spread everywhere.
I somehow survived.. as I had cancer when I was just 8-9 years old.
not exactly a fun thing to suffer and then see other disappear by the same thing.

Sadly, my parents both died so young because of poor lifestyle choices.
You can't smoke two packs a day for nearly 50 years and not pay the piper.

That's why it breaks my heart that my 17 year old (you know, the one with a heart condition!) smokes. Idiot. Listening to him hack up a lung every morning takes me back.

Anyways Folks, it's 6:00, and I am outta here. Catch ya on the flip side.

 

[Nemo14]

62

I think the cancer medication is a major cause of the problems she is having. She would not forget where she is going in the middle of driving to somewhere before this.

Cancer drugs are pretty powerful, so that's probably the cause. Also, my doctor has reassured me that it's not uncommon to have occasional bouts of forgetfulness at my age (29! ) Just keep an eye on things though. My mom's early symptoms were more like her repeating the same stories over and over every time we'd go to FL to visit her. we just kind of laughed it off at the time, but looking back now, it was probably a sign.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

 

[PUSH]

Neither of my parents are in great decline, thankfully, but I've witnessed similar things with all my grandparents and other elderly family members.

My great aunt passed away a few years ago, and before that she was diagnosed with dementia. At the end she had several health problems, one being something with the bowels. She was going to get surgery for that, but she could never get strong enough to do so. She couldn't remember the names of me, my brother, my mom, my dad, and I believe she couldn't even remember her son's name at the end. She kept asking for her husband. She had two husbands during her life, one of which died in a car accident a long time ago, and one who passed away from natural causes in the early 2000s. I don't know which one she was talking about, but either way it had been a long time since they had been around. My grandma (her sister) is starting to lose her memory, too. She just stares straight ahead and zones everything out. She was here on mother's day and we were talking to her, and we had to say her name a few times to get her attention.

My grandpa on my dad's side passed away a couple years ago from lung cancer. He started a cough in October 2012, went to the hospital after a few weeks of it not going away, and was diagnosed. He took a fall in November and ended up in the hospital for a few days. After that it was decided that he was no longer able to live at home. He ended up in the nursing home for a few months before he passed. For Christmas we took him out for the day and brought him to our house. He couldn't sit on our wooden chairs at the kitchen table because it hurt too much. My brother and I went to see him several times, and each time it got worse. The very last time we went to see him was a couple days before he went. He couldn't speak, eat, or anything. Actually, he didn't eat anything a week or two before he passed. When my mom said that we were there he opened his eyes, looked at us, and then closed them again. It was great to know he knew we were there, but heartbreaking also. He likely ended up with cancer because he had alcoholic binges every couple weeks where he'd drink until he passed out.

For both of my mom's parents, nobody really knew exactly why they passed away. My grandpa had been through several health issues, and had gotten through all of them. I can't tell you how many times he went in for surgeries that could have been the end. A week after moving into new apartments he got sick and didn't make it. Just over a year later my grandma (his wife) passed away unexpectedly on Mother's Day. My mom kept calling her to say happy mother's day, but she never answered. She figured that she had gone up to my grandpa's grave and spent a while up there. After most the day went by without getting a hold of her, my dad and her went over to their apartment and found her laying on the bathroom floor where she had passed away. We were told it might have been a massive heart attack, but it was just a guess. The thing is she had a pile of books propped up under her head, and she was holding onto a mop because she was cleaning. So she must have been laying there a while before she died. The water in the sink was still running. She was only 69.

 

[Gabe1]

The East Indian culture is very centred on the male side of the family.
When a girl gets married (even here), they move in with the husband's side of the family. It is not uncommon for two or more sons to be newly married and bring their brides into the family home.
All of the daughters-in-law must yield to the mother-in-law, until they move into their own home.

As I said earlier, my Purchaser base is approximately 90% Indo-Canadian - my peeps. I have sold multiple homes to the same family many times over the years.

Typical scenario - a multi-generational family of up to 8 adults (+kids) will buy a home. Grandma and Grandpa look after the kids. (Grandma in the home, Grandpa in the community. It's always the Grandpas pushing the strollers and taking the kids to the park.) All of the adults work. And work hard - at multiple jobs. Within 2-3 years, the mortgage on the first home is paid off, and a second home is purchased. This goes to the oldest son and his family; and we start the whole process over again, until 7-8 years down the road, there are 4 or 5 separate homes all paid off. At this point, the original family home is sold, and Grandma and Grandpa either go back to India, or they move in with the oldest son.

Having worked in this community almost exclusively since 1990, I have seen this process repeated many times.

Indo-Canadians are also very loyal buyers. They will follow the same builder from phase to phase, site to site, and they all love Jenny-fer. Their kids all call me Auntie, as per their custom.

I have a girlfriend from childhood who married a second-generation Indo-Canadian. Except for the moving into Mama-in-laws house, even this very Canadian girl followed Indian tradition concerning her wedding. She was married in a sari, with the hennaed hands, in a typical Indian ceremony, following her "Canadian" wedding held in the Pentecostal church of her childhood. She had two complete ceremonies only because they could afford it. Had there been only enough $$ for one, she told me they would have had to forego the Canadian dinner/dance thing and just had the church ceremony prior to the Indian celebration.

Yep. No way. No love in the world would I as an American woman get myself mixed up in all that in the first place.

 

[acishere]

Except for this one:

 

[StarWarsGirl]

That's why it breaks my heart that my 17 year old (you know, the one with a heart condition!) smokes. Idiot. Listening to him hack up a lung every morning takes me back.

When I was in Drivers Ed, there was this instructor who would go out, smoke, and come back hacking. He smoked so much. So he would cough the entire way through class, and then would ask us if we have any questions. What I really wanted to say, but never did, was, "Yes. Have you ever considered the benefits of the nicotine patch?"

I don't get the appeal of it. At all. It stinks, it smells, it gives you bad breath, gives you a horrible cough, ruins your teeth and lungs, and eventually it kills you. Wonderful

 

[acishere]

When I was in Drivers Ed, there was this instructor who would go out, smoke, and come back hacking. He smoked so much. So he would cough the entire way through class, and then would ask us if we have any questions. What I really wanted to say, but never did, was, "Yes. Have you ever considered the benefits of the nicotine patch?"

I don't get the appeal of it. At all. It stinks, it smells, it gives you bad breath, gives you a horrible cough, ruins your teeth and lungs, and eventually it kills you. Wonderful

My girlfriend and I both smoked briefly for a period and we both started the same way. You are in a social setting where everyone around goes out to smoke, you tag along not wanting to be left alone, and then tried a cigarette for the hell of it. Next thing you know you buy a pack and are one of the smokers. I stopped myself after only a couple months. I think my gf was a smoker for 2 or 3 years.

Also JenniferS mentioned a different kind of smoking... which adds some other stuff into the mix of why people do it...

 

[StarWarsGirl]

My brother's response to us asking him to do a chore. "No thank you." Um, it wasn't a suggestion...

 

[PUSH]

http://news-hound.org/youre-a-geniu...why-any-of-these-38-signs-exists-what-in-the/

I think #4 was made for @JenniferS.

 

[PUSH]

http://buzzblips.com/33-teachers-who-got-the-last-laugh/

I think @Nemo14 was behind a couple of these.

 

[Gabe1]

...Two things.

One, I think I finally figured out @acishere 's screen name. A. C. is here. I think I know you're first name (the "A") from Netflix screencaps you've posted... but am I right? I can be kinda thick at times. :\

Two. I had a bit of a... disagreement with someone in my office over how "white" WDW is. Disney, in general, actually. He claims WDW is for "bored white people" and the Disney Co. is racists for not including black people in any of their cartoons.

Apparently, she doesn't count.

After bringing her up this idiot dismissed her (and countless other examples) as "not Disney anyhow".




...I ate a second lunch because that Lean Cuisine was a lie. That is not only NOT lunch, it's not food, and it's not going in my tummy ever again.

Poor Tummy! Is it better now.

People are just stupid. One only has to look at any Disney advertisement over the last few months

poly

Star Wars Days

FP+

mine train

Flower and Garden

Memory Maker

Dining Plan

Can't claim Disney portrays Disney as White in their advertisements.

 

[Gabe1]

Go Canada. Restaurant gives discounts to parents of well behaved kids

 

[Gabe1]

Oh Tokyo I'd buy that serving dish in a heartbeat

 

[Gabe1]