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Old 12-09-2016, 12:05 PM
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PuzzledHeart
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this has become the "caring for elderly parents" thread. Despite its kinda downer nature, I am liking it. Maybe we should create our own club, like the Whiners, of which I am a proud whiny member.
Can I join?

My mother, after her radiation, had to use a walker. As she started recovering, she graduated to a cane.

And then gardening shears.

As the weather got warmer, she would go outside and garden. Inevitably that involved a fair bit of pruning. She would wear flip-flops and use her gardening shears as her cane. And with each stab into the ground she would occasionally get a little too wee close to her foot. I would inevitably throw fits, and told her point blank that she wasn't going to die of cancer, she was going to die of blood poisoning.

She would laugh and tell me that I was funny. Grrrr...
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