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Dear Need, I'm so very sorry for the sudden loss of your brother.
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(((((((Need)))))) So so sorry about your older brother. We are never prepared for this news and especially when it comes out of the blue and we don't know much about what happened. Hope you are getting some sleep. This is such a shock. Prayers for peace of mind for you and all family. Be sure to keep yourself hydrated and do eat a little as you can. You need it.
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Need,
So sorry for the loss of your older brother.

💞🌹💞

Condolences to you and his family for this sudden loss.
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Thanks, I appreciate your kind words.
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Llama,

I guess I can go make some herbal tea. My mind is going in different directions. I hope that he wasn’t suffering horribly in the ambulance.

I wish I could have told him one more time that I loved him.
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Need: I understand that you probably won't be able to sleep. What a terrible phone call to receive. I am so sorry. Maybe you can drink some chamomile tea. Be good to yourself.🧡
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Llama,

Thanks, I can’t stop crying. Too upset to sleep. I will miss him.

My oldest brother died shortly before my birthday. Funny how now my other brother died in October too.

My brother died on his oldest son’s first year wedding anniversary. One son lives here, the other one lives in AZ.
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Need: I am very sorry to hear the news of your brother's passing. I send you deepest condolences. Hugs. 💙💙💙
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Way,

Thank you. I’m sort of in shock, he’s struggled for so long with heart disease and managed to come home. It’s hard to imagine that he’s gone forever now.
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(((((Need)))),

So sorry for you and your family .
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Just got an awful phone call from my younger brother. My older brother died. I’m so sad. I will be 68 this month. He was 72.

His wife was at work. He was in pain and he was going to the hospital in an ambulance. He died in the ambulance.

His heart finally gave out. They called my sister in law and told her that he didn’t make it.
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Geaton: I may check out D-Mannose for DH. Thank you again.
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cw: My BIL's business involves working with banks on foreclosed homes. He goes in and renovates the place for resale. The former residents leave everything behind, which are then his. These places are often jammed with things.
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Geaton: Thank you. I haven't looked into the D-Mannose personally. I take a daily regime of Myrbetriq and cranberry tabs and have not had a reocurrence.
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way: Thank you.
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I follow a guy on YouTube that explores abandoned buildings in Ontario... these houses are usually jammed full of possessions left behind which is why they are interesting to see. You can't help but wonder why people just walked away from everything - some are obviously properties of a little old man or woman that probably died or ended up in the nursing home. Many seem to indicate there should be family members somewhere (toys, family pictures etc) and you can't help but wonder what their story is, it's heartbreaking.
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Llama, once your DH is clear of his UTI (and finished his antibiotics) maybe consider the supplement D-Mannose for him (daily for maintenance, available on amazon). Once we started supplying it to my MIL's LTC staff, her UTIs were cut down by more than 50%. A shout out to AlvaDeer for posting about this supplement and thus helping my MIL in such a tangible way!
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🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻. Llama.
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So my DH has his first ever U.T.I. I took him to Patient First to get dx'd and obtain an antibiotic. It's rare for him to get sick. Prayers requested. Thank you.
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Barb,

Glad that you dodged the flooding. Sorry about your daughter’s yard.

I saw the flooding on the news. What a mess!
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cw,

Harvest moons are my favorite.
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I missed the full harvest moon rise last night so I thought I'd try to catch it tonight instead. It was a beautiful night for a walk but... I wasn't sure of the right time and hanging about on the eastern edge of town, in the dark, by myself, just felt uncomfortable. Ah well... 😞
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Margaret,

Get two aluminum Coke cans with a string between them . Probably work as good as what you described . 🤪
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Cwillie, I thought you might like to hear our landline issues. I hang on to it, because I find the clever phone a trial to deal with. The smart phone works by satellite, and it only works within a few feet of our satellite connection inside under the dish, but the landline has had its problems too. When it gets wet, the electric fences between us and the closest telephone exchange short out the phone lines in the ground. You can’t win. Perhaps flags are the answer.
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Luckily, I am in Maine. My daughter has 8 inches of water in her backyard.
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I just saw video of the flooding in NYC - hopefully our members from that area are safe (and dry). ☔
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A greeting,
a puddle, stepping,
to the side

I am reminded today of the film Groundhog Day. When Ned greets Phil on the street (everyday) & Phil steps into that deep puddle (everyday). Then the FREEDOM of stepping around in time!

I see you today puddle - all wet & awaiting, yet my feet will stay dry.

(Just because one person cannot do a thing - does not equate to this person having to do that thing instead).
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My Dad loved buffet meals at my house so much that he was always first in line .
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cwillie,

I agree. Many years ago, when I was hosting a buffet supper in my home and handed my FIL a plate and told him to help himself, he refused the plate and told me that a man is served his food by a woman.

My response was "So manhood is something a woman serves you on a plate?"

Nothing to do with being old fashioned, the man despised women.
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Beatty, I have known one person who was diagnosed with BPD and she is all over the place in terms of symptoms. Long crying jags, super high mania, delusional thinking, and verbally and physically abusive with husband and children.

The SMIs are all cyclical in nature (recurring at intervals) this particular person with BPD has several regular episodes a year. The episodes last for weeks as she skates back and forth between the symptoms mentioned in the first paragraph. During those episodes she makes her family's life miserable. Even when the episodes decline they all do the traditional egg shell walk, they are terrified they will set her off again.

When she was younger, she was better at hiding her issues. If she slipped up and people saw her upset in public and asked her what was wrong, her blue eyes would get round, her voice would pitch higher and she would blame husband or children for upsetting her. She looked as innocent and childish as Shirley Temple as she told her story. People would comfort HER.

She's older now, early 40's, getting worse, and her public filters are slipping. Instead of coming to comfort her, people are now approaching her family and asking them if they realize she has a mental illness.
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