
Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
song by the Hollies
My folks had been going through a very ugly divorce that took 4-5 years. It had been final for just a few weeks when my dad passed. At that point I started to see things in my mom that I never really had before. Or I was older and better understood. My mom was a whack-a-doodle! I wonder if she was bipolar. I remember her fits of rage, more so after my dad was gone. And the bad mouthing she did of my dad! Nothing children should ever have to go through!
My mom went back to work and started working on her Master's degree, in guidance and counseling, of all things! She would get home from work, go to her room and study and work on papers, nap and whatever. I often would have to get dinner put together for mom and twisteds and me. I am the oldest after all.... Once dad had taken me and twisteds to dinner, got home, and mom was in the garage with the car running.
There are others that have had terrible childhoods. How we live through it I never will understand.
I agree. It robs us of our childhood when we are exposed to situations that we aren’t old enough to understand. This happened in my family too, mainly due to my brother being an addict.
Honestly, I understand that my parents didn’t know how to handle these things. There wasn’t any support for families back then. It was a ‘hush hush’ era. Support groups weren’t around.
I spent a good deal of my childhood being confused.
Also, it wasn't just me in the picture either. I had six siblings. One of which had schizophrenia, which was another burden on my mom and the family as he could be violent at times.
I think I took on the responsibility of my mom cause I was so afraid I'd lose her too. She was recovering from breast cancer at the same time as my dad was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer so it was a valid fear although at the young age of four I doubt I really comprehended it all. But my subconscious must have taken it all in somehow and that is most likely why I was so protective of my mom.
I in no way blame my mom for any of it. She had so many burdens of her own bringing up seven kids, one of whom had a serious mental disease.
It will be good for me to get out of here for a few days!
glad- happy for you that you are having a break thanks to your son. It sounds great. I miss the breaks I used to take pre covid and now it doesn't make much sense to go south with the move looming.
Made it through another winter here! Happy March 1 though still snowy and somewhat cold. Better days are ahead.
I hope your issue is resolved soon.
I don't even know if they are reachable at this time. When Kim was around eons ago I had an email. Then I had one for "Ashley" but I think she is not here now we are
"a place for mom"? Anyway, here are the contacts I have in my phone book.
Moderator@agingcare.com
Ashley.thielen@agingcare.com (old I think)
and one from 4/22 which is:
ashley.huntsberry@aplaceformom.com.
Hope these can help, but not much hope. Hope just resetting everything and site will be up soon.
https://www.agingcare.com/members/agingcarecm
I feel for you losing your father at such a young age. With me, my grandmother was like my mother. I lived with her when I was little and she just died. She was old and had some health problems. Then I got handed back to two people (my parents) who I barely knew and who didn't want me to begin with.
It's hard for a child because they don't have autonomy. They cannot make their own decisions like an adult can. So those years are tough. It forms the type of adults we will be in later life though.
At this point she cannot use the site. She has contacted the Administrator and they are trying to fix the problem. She can't post and she can't get to her profile.
She can see where she has received two private messages from Send and anonymous. She feels it may be due from a reply she made. At this point she can't read these messages or respond. She wants to apologize if she offended you. She is upset about it.
For now, she is going to take a break and see what happens but feels this maybe permanent.
I too cannot get into my Profile.
Technical difficulties are going to happen occasionally.
Barb had a problem not long ago. They will eventually fix it.
Hope your issues are resolved soon.
Nobody jump ship yet! The tech difficulties are likely due to the storms, March coming in like a lion! It is not time to feel slighted. I often feel a bit paranoid, but have learned to use that to stay safe and figure things out.
I personally do not want to lose any long time posters.
Their presence here is invaluable to so many people!
I have read her private messages to me.
She will always be forgiven for any misunderstandings.
I have found her comment(s) on a particular post so much better, and funny to boot the way she wrote it. So cool!
If there has been any censorship from the admins because of what we say, Alva would not be someone they would be concerned about, imo. I doubt anyone would report her for anything.
I came here to comment on the tech difficulties. Maybe we could address our bills, our own challenges today, then come back in a day, or a week.
I hope there is not a mass exodus from this valuable forum.
BTW, AlvaDeer and I are not having an argument. I agree with her. I am not a threat to her. She has done nothing wrong. 🧸️
Thanks, JoAnn. Alva gave me permission to contact her through you.
It’s just a technical glitch. It will be fixed in time.
Glitches have happened before and no doubt will happen again.
Pls help if you can. Also, if you receive this, please like so I will know you received it because I'm not sure if I'll receive a message back from you. Can you post msg below for me so people know what's happening and AC
Catskie62:
If you receive this, PLEASE HELP or try to reach out for me.
I haven't been able to post anything here for the second day now! I wrote a dozen different thoughtful responses on threads yesterday, on my end it appears as if they post at first, but then they never actually show up in the thread or on the recent activity list or when I refresh the page.
I tried to message AC yesterday morning, didn't get a response. I've tried everything rebooting, using a different browser etc. I'm getting pretty frustrated and discouraged. I have no idea what to do. I can see others are having problems as well. They can post but don't have access to their profile pg. I can see my profile page but can't post!
Can you perhaps copy this msg for me and post it on the MyProfile and On my mind threads where this is being discussed and then report the post, as another attempt for me to get help with this from AC.
I hoped it would be fixed by today, but I just tried to post on those threads and it plain will not let me post! I seem to be able to read what's happening just fine and it seems as if I can vote & like posts but can't post myself.
What should I do?
Bandy7
Needhelp, I have been on this group for 6 yrs at least and have not seen this happen before. Seems everyday someone else is effected.
All I am saying is that this sort of thing isn’t uncommon, no matter what site it is on.
I hope those who are affected by this glitch will have full access to AgingCare soon.
Hoping for the glitches to be fixed soon.
Feels like it started when the moon was aligned with Venus and Pluto. That was a fantastic sight to see in the night's sky :)
(Hm, maybe the bots are staging a takeover🤔)
Yep! The bots are taking over! 😝
I still want a ‘Rosie,’ just like on The Jetsons! I was captivated by her as a child and wanted her to do all of my chores.
Or…
I think I would have been happy with Mary Poppins too! I loved how she cleaned up Jane and Michael’s room with her magic.
It’s technology! Glitches will always happen. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen this thing on sites.
I do get annoyed when glitches occur on something important like my banking website, or my portal to my doctor. Still, it’s not that big of a deal. It gets resolved sooner or later.
Perhaps Canada is in the safe zone?
I cannot imagine that Cwillie would ever, not ever be placed on a 'time out' by the Admins.
Is that an imaginary time out, or is a 'time out' something real? Are there really "Bots"? I have thought so, but no one ever confirmed it.
I feel bad for BarbBrooklyn and FreqFlyer having these problems for so long now.