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There's such a weird dissonance when I read posts like this from people in Australia Margaret, it's like you are finally joining the club we in North America have been in for a year and a half (meh, been there done that)!
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Let’s hear it for the truckies! Two drivers went from Sydney to Perth without passing on a Covid infection that came up on the way. They said that most truckies now drive in a pair, and each drives in 12 hour shifts. They stop only for fuel, are careful when they pay, then drop the load and pickup at a designated point and return. Almost no interactions with people. They refueled at Pt Augusta, which is a crossroad for virtually everything going east west or north south across Australia. They saved thousands of people from lockdown and infection!
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The reason I'm unsure is that sis never did manage to talk to the social worker about next steps and discharge planning, however she did tell everyone else she talked to that the reason she needed to make plans is that the family did not feel MIL could be safely discharged to her home because she lives alone and family was not able to care for her (all the buzz words I learned here).
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Cwillie,
Having strong advocates makes a huge difference in the care our elders receive. I am sure of it.
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Thanks Send. Sis's MIL had 3 stents and is waiting for an opening in a rehab facility (something that is rarely offered here), it's hard to know if sister's advocacy had anything to do with that. She adamantly does not want to move to a facility full time, only time will tell whether a return to her senior's apartment is possible (I have my fingers crossed for her).
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CWillie,
Hoping that your sister is managing okay with her Mil having had a heart attack.
It is good that you can be there for your sister.
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Cwillie, I had to laugh at "eat off the floors", my dads 2nd wife keeps a VERY immaculate house. My dad and uncle were talking about it one day and my dad said, "You could eat off her floors they're so clean", my uncle responded, "You can eat off my floors too, only you'll get real food".

All about perspective :-)
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I was out cleaning my windows when someone from my home town happened to be walking by. This fellow's MIL was a neighbour of my parents and she was know as a real haus frau, one of those people who did the window once a week and whose floors undoubtedly were literally clean enough to eat off of. I couldn't help but think all those ladies would be spinning in their graves if they could see my cleaning method - sponge the grime off with a bucket of dawn detergent and a floor mop then rinse with the hose. The end.
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My husband's build and movement are so much like the new Tesla Bot, what can I do with this information? The Bot is said to be friendly and not aggressive, but elonmusk explains just in case, it can be out run, and one can likely over power it.

I can only laugh at this moment. 🤣💫🤣
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"Professor Luc Montagnier is a French virologist who won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)."

See what he says about the vaccines.
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Thank you Send.
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Condolences on the loss of your Uncle, CWillie.

My Uncle passed one year ago this month, after having lived a wonderful life.
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It was so much easier when the doctors came out and said "I'm sorry, there's nothing more we can do", today they come out and offer too many options.

At my uncle's funeral yesterday my cousin told us how my uncle, caught up in pain and confusion of the moment, authorized them to do everything, effectively overriding his carefully thought advance directives. The poor man.
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You are not alone in feeling that. It is a different time now, and a person is not paranoid if they "trust no one".

One of the issues is people saying the same words, but the meanings have changed.
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It's hard to be caught up in the maw of the healthcare system, you have no choice but to trust them yet experience has taught me they aren't trustworthy.
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Good morning CWillie.
Sorry that a family member is ill.
You are the very best person to be giving your sister that advice.

Hoping sister's husband will step up.
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Sister's MIL has had a heart attack yesterday and decisions must be made. Sis is listed as the contact and got a phone call at 3 a.m. from a doctor to explain what was going on - they seriously expect people to have a rational conversation in the middle of the night? ... this was just a heads up call, nothing needing immediate decisions.
Sis called me for advice this morning, I told her she needs to watch her back and defer to family, plus as far as we know now MIL still has capacity to make her own choices. The family drama will begin this morning as sis starts making phone calls 😬
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Gershun,
On the day to day living home front, I am very saddened to hear that your cat, Daniel, has died today. 😿

I will be remembering him, the stories you have told, and the way you stood strong with him through to the end of his life.

Prayers for your comfort.
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At the start of the crisis far too many politicians (and locally a couple of big hospital CEO's) obviously thought there was nothing wrong with hopping on a plane to go to visit family or take a holiday on a tropical island while at the same time admonishing us to stay locked down in our homes and not go out except for essentials, lots of CYA demotions and dismissals ensued once the press exposed them. Currently our Premier has given his caucus notice that they must be vaccinated or they'll be kicked out, people here are losing patience with the vaccine hesitant and are downright angry at the belligerent.
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CW I'm still grinning, some months later, over the SPECTACULAR car crash resignation of our last Health Secretary, Matt Hancock. Caught on CCTV snogging a woman (not his good lady wife) in his office, and this lady also occupying a senior position *to which he had appointed her* and it turned out was an old flame from his university days.

My son reposted a vulgar but extremely funny video on the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x41AYqvlCAs

Not even Boris could keep him after that. Sometimes you just don't know where to look.
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What I love about my Canadian friends is that they are always known as being polite.
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I'm concerned about all of this covid stuff, the fires here in B.C., the situation with the Taliban heartbreaking. My cat Daniel dying of lung cancer.

Life sucks in so many ways. I'm going to be in constant prayer for a good while I think.😟
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I mean politically Send.
Sure we have our anti vaxxers too but on the whole there is no comparison. And our politicians and other elite found out pretty early on that any kind of covid hypocrisy would not be tolerated.
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CWillie?
Excuse me?
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No denying you are way more f*cked up in America polarbear.

I just sent an angry text to my "I'll get around to it later" nephew. If we can't reach the targets we will be stuck in this h3ll forever🤬
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Obama just threw himself a birthday bash at Martha's Vineyard with hundreds of high profile guests including politicians and Hollywood celebs, maskless and no vax mandate. Laws are only for the little people.
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I just found out we are still not allowed to have an indoor gathering of more than 25 people so my uncle's funeral will be graveside and the lunch following will be at an outdoor pavilion, this despite the fact we can dine in restaurants and hold religious services at 50% capacity. Some of these rules make no sense. They could have gone with a church funeral and a restaurant reception with no problems.
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Wait - if you are getting your news feed emailed to you (I didn't even know that was a thing) you can change that in your settings, I don't get much mail from AgingCare because I have opted out of most of it. Click on your avatar, select settings then select subscriptions, turn off the caregiver connections and anything else you don't want to see in your emails. You can still check your news feed when you come to the site but you won't keep getting pesky email updates.
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Send & CWillie, thanks for trying to help me. I have all the comments from May on my news feed. I thought I could delete them as I do with my regular Yahoo emails. I had no success with the three little dots. All those did was give me a window that said “unfollow”.

I’ll do as I’ve read elsewhere: “Pick your battles”. I have enough to worry about rather than worry and grieve over this. Right?!

Thanks again!
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Hallah - I'm not sure what you are wanting to accomplish with your news feed, I pretty much leave my news feed alone unless I get a poison pen message or one of the threads I have commented on loses my interest and/or multiple comments start to clog up my news feed.... the older stuff just drops off the bottom of the page anyway. AgingCare claims ownership of everything we say here so except in rare circumstances your comments will never disappear completely from the site.
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