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Chula Vista · 01-01-2016, 03:20 PM

My 84 year old dad as of yesterday.

Backstory: He's slowly developed bad dementia over the last decade and then about a year ago had to undergo surgery. During recovery he suffered a minor stroke. He's had a LONG and hard recovery since then. He was fed through a tube for about 9 months because of his health. And then he started to get physically better - the dementia is permanent though. Until recently he just kept getting better and better.

My sister back east sent me this picture from Christmas day of him and my step-mom enjoying lunch together.

And then 3 nights ago at 3:00AM he had a spell where he thought he'd left a stove on. He got out of bed and fell, fracturing just about everything on his left side. He'll be bed ridden for the next 2 months while he heals - which will only exasperate his dementia.

Sorry to be a drag, but the recent God thread made me do it. Is this how God intended end of life to be?

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Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Life sucks and then you die. My 84 year old dad as of yesterday. Backstory: He's slowly developed bad dementia over the last decade and then about a year ago had to undergo surgery. During recovery he suffered a minor stroke. He's had a LONG and hard recovery since then. He was fed through a tube for about 9 months because of his health. And then he started to get physically better - the dementia is permanent though. Until recently he just kept getting better and better. My sister back east sent me this picture from Christmas day of him and my step-mom enjoying lunch together. And then 3 nights ago at 3:00AM he had a spell where he thought he'd left a stove on. He got out of bed and fell, fracturing just about everything on his left side. He'll be bed ridden for the next 2 months while he heals - which will only exasperate his dementia. Sorry to be a drag, but the recent God thread made me do it. Is this how God intended end of life to be? __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”