Do you agree with euthanasia?

[Scooby Dudek]

3 hours ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

On a different note I remember listening to a radio presenter saying he's been troubled about death ever since an Admiral told him "DO NOT! go towards the light, it is a trap"

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[lifetime fan]

Nanny Groombridge died this evening, 89. 
 

She’d had that cunt dementia for several years but you’d still get the occasional moment where she’d ask for a sherry and chocolate Brazil when the nurses weren’t around with that twinkle in her eye. 
 

One saving grace I suppose is there’ll be no limit on numbers at the funeral with her having 10 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. 

[Preston Red]

3 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

Nanny Groombridge died this evening, 89. 
 

She’d had that cunt dementia for several years but you’d still get the occasional moment where she’d ask for a sherry and chocolate Brazil when the nurses weren’t around with that twinkle in her eye. 
 

One saving grace I suppose is there’ll be no limit on numbers at the funeral with her having 10 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. 

Sorry to hear that, Col.

 

Dementia is a horrible cunt of a thing that robs families twice.

[ZonkoVille77]

9 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

Nanny Groombridge died this evening, 89. 
 

She’d had that cunt dementia for several years but you’d still get the occasional moment where she’d ask for a sherry and chocolate Brazil when the nurses weren’t around with that twinkle in her eye. 
 

One saving grace I suppose is there’ll be no limit on numbers at the funeral with her having 10 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. 

 

May she Rest in Peace.

[cloggypop]

11 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

Nanny Groombridge died this evening, 89. 
 

She’d had that cunt dementia for several years but you’d still get the occasional moment where she’d ask for a sherry and chocolate Brazil when the nurses weren’t around with that twinkle in her eye. 
 

One saving grace I suppose is there’ll be no limit on numbers at the funeral with her having 10 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. 

Condolences mate

[Harry's Lad]

4 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

Nanny Groombridge died this evening, 89. 
 

She’d had that cunt dementia for several years but you’d still get the occasional moment where she’d ask for a sherry and chocolate Brazil when the nurses weren’t around with that twinkle in her eye. 
 

One saving grace I suppose is there’ll be no limit on numbers at the funeral with her having 10 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. 

Sorry to hear that mate. Dementia really is a horrible illness.

Having lost members of my own family to it the only mercy really is they're oblivious to it and any moments of clarity are quickly forgotten.

That's how it was with my Nan and Mum on law anyway.

 

Never forget that twinkle.

[lifetime fan]

Fuck you dementia. Fuck right off you horrible fucking cunt. 

[Rushies tash]

12 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

Fuck you dementia. Fuck right off you horrible fucking cunt. 

My mam is in the mid stages of it, but she's deteriorated quite alot over the last year. She only 74 for fucks sake. Sincere condolences mate, it's a cunt of an illness.

[Harry's Lad]

51 minutes ago, Rushies tash said:

My mam is in the mid stages of it, but she's deteriorated quite alot over the last year. She only 74 for fucks sake. Sincere condolences mate, it's a cunt of an illness.

Feel for you mate. It's a horrible thing to see.

There are times though when you can't help but laugh at some of the things that happen. You don't laugh at the person, but at the ridiculous things they sometimes do and then you feel guilty for finding it funny.

 

My Mrs doted on her mum, but some of the things my mum in law did were fucking hilarious, proper piss your pants funny, but absolutely heartbreakingly tragic at the same time which was something my Mrs had a hard time dealing with.

 

Basically, you don't really know how to feel or what to do which I'm sure you're finding out, but you do muddle on through it. 

 

Thoughts are with you.

 

 

 

 

 

[lifetime fan]

A very special relative on the Irish side of the family will be lost to us over this weekend. 
 

As a very large Irish family he was always called my ‘Great Uncle Mike’ although that was just because of the generational differences and we were actually cousins. 
 

He was one of the worlds greatest human beings, his wife was also and they genuinely made the world a better place. 
 

Mike and Marg used to volunteer for 6 months a year at the very first orphanage opened in South Africa for children diagnosed with HIV and AIDS.
 

They met and had their photo taken with Nelson Mandela whilst volunteering there. It says everything about them that we’ve never seen that photo. 
 

I hope they use it for his mass card. 
 

I have no problem taking the piss out of religion but Catholicism meant a great deal to them and I went to church tonight and said a prayer…

[Rushies tash]

16 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

A very special relative on the Irish side of the family will be lost to us over this weekend. 
 

As a very large Irish family he was always called my ‘Great Uncle Mike’ although that was just because of the generational differences and we were actually cousins. 
 

He was one of the worlds greatest human beings, his wife was also and they genuinely made the world a better place. 
 

Mike and Marg used to volunteer for 6 months a year at the very first orphanage opened in South Africa for children diagnosed with HIV and AIDS.
 

They met and had their photo taken with Nelson Mandela whilst volunteering there. It says everything about them that we’ve never seen that photo. 
 

I hope they use it for his mass card. 
 

I have no problem taking the piss out of religion but Catholicism meant a great deal to them and I went to church tonight and said a prayer…

Fuck sake, was trying to reply to this but don't have the words. Hope you're ok mate, sounds like a shite few months.

[lifetime fan]

5 minutes ago, Rushies tash said:

Fuck sake, was trying to reply to this but don't have the words. Hope you're ok mate, sounds like a shite few months.

I wasn’t expecting this to hit me so hard. 

[Rushies tash]

5 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

I wasn’t expecting this to hit me so hard. 

I now know what everyone means about losing them twice. Hope you've got family support around you mate - I've never spoken to my sister so much (she's my mam's main carer at the moment and is at the end of her tether with it all).

[Harry's Lad]

7 minutes ago, Rushies tash said:

I now know what everyone means about losing them twice. Hope you've got family support around you mate - I've never spoken to my sister so much (she's my mam's main carer at the moment and is at the end of her tether with it all).

My Mrs was her mum's carer. Her mum still lived at home on her own, and did so for 8 or 9 years. 

 

My Mrs is a school caretaker and her official hours are 7:30 - 9:30 then 3:30 - 6:30, but the nature of the job means she never leaves on time.

 

She'd be at her mum's sorting things out, making sure she was washed, dressed, had breakfast before she went to work in the morning, then back there for her lunch, again before she went to work and then again to do her tea and tidy up and get her into bed.

 

She'd be running around after me because I'm next to useless now, the Grandkids, shopping for us and her mum, she was bloody exhausted. I really don't know how she did it, but she was adamant she wasn't putting her in a care home.

 

The only person she got any help off was her sister who did what she could, but not living local and having no transport of her own, there wasn't much she could do, and when she got hit with cancer, what little help she was getting stopped.

 

Something had to give. The situation was killing her, so I eventually managed to persuade her to put her in respite care for a couple of weeks to recharge her batteries and it was during that time she finally realised that as much as she loved her mum, her Alzheimers was really advanced and she was now out of her depth, so agreed to put her in a care home.

 

She's amazing my Mrs, a real one off, as is anybody such as your sister who takes on looking after a loved one with dementia.

Seeing that person disappear bit by bit is one of the hardest things you could ever do and I have nothing but respect and admiration for anybody that does.

 

Bless them.

 

 

 

 

[Preston Red]

9 hours ago, Harry's Lad said:

My Mrs was her mum's carer. Her mum still lived at home on her own, and did so for 8 or 9 years. 

 

My Mrs is a school caretaker and her official hours are 7:30 - 9:30 then 3:30 - 6:30, but the nature of the job means she never leaves on time.

 

She'd be at her mum's sorting things out, making sure she was washed, dressed, had breakfast before she went to work in the morning, then back there for her lunch, again before she went to work and then again to do her tea and tidy up and get her into bed.

 

She'd be running around after me because I'm next to useless now, the Grandkids, shopping for us and her mum, she was bloody exhausted. I really don't know how she did it, but she was adamant she wasn't putting her in a care home.

 

The only person she got any help off was her sister who did what she could, but not living local and having no transport of her own, there wasn't much she could do, and when she got hit with cancer, what little help she was getting stopped.

 

Something had to give. The situation was killing her, so I eventually managed to persuade her to put her in respite care for a couple of weeks to recharge her batteries and it was during that time she finally realised that as much as she loved her mum, her Alzheimers was really advanced and she was now out of her depth, so agreed to put her in a care home.

 

She's amazing my Mrs, a real one off, as is anybody such as your sister who takes on looking after a loved one with dementia.

Seeing that person disappear bit by bit is one of the hardest things you could ever do and I have nothing but respect and admiration for anybody that does.

 

Bless them.

 

 

 

 

Big respect to your Mrs. Those who put others first are a special breed.

 

My wife and her brother took it on themselves to look after their dad last year after he had a fall at home. They'd do 8 hour shifts between them. He was diagnosed with mixed dementia late 2017 at 71 and the wife would go round three nights out of seven. Luckily both the wife and her brother were furloughed at the time, which made it easier to do this but they were both knackered. The poor bugger would keep getting water infections too which would send him round the twist. He was convinced one night there were two Russian spies in his living room. Eventually they realised too that he needed specialist care.

 

When Covid hit last year, his partner decided she was going to isolate at home because that's the kind of selfish bitch she is. She started backing away from him when he was diagnosed even though they'd been together nearly 30 years. Sunday nights were torture because effectively you were going round to listen to her moaning about everything and then telling us about his "accidents". For fuck's sake, imagine being a proud man all your life and having something like this blurted out every time you went round. I stopped going on the Sundays. Before she fucked off he was reasonably OK but was losing mobility after a fall in early 2019. The medication was keeping it at bay but after the episode described earlier he went downhill.

 

He's still with us and knows who people are. Due to Covid regs, I haven't seen him face to face for 18 months now but the wife gets to see him weekly with her brother. The stepson and his wife have taken his great grandson (he's called Billy, after his great grandad) to see him too which is superb.