Originally posted by jackdaw:
Thx guys.......trying times....
Indeed. And it's perhaps the most helpless feeling to have to sit by and watch our beloved parents struggle with health issues... I know it was for me with both of them.
Mom lived in abject pain from arthritis, the bad kind, for decades... then in the end, undiagnosed lower GI organ cancer spread to her spine and caused even more horrific pain...finally, once diagnosed, she just decided it was time to "go home to Jesus" and in 15 days, she was gone!
Dad fought thru a mild stroke, but ended up in a nursing home, the last 15 months bedridden unless they used this horrid Hoyer LIFT that looked like loading cattle in a ship hold!
Drives home the point Jack, we are NOT in charge. We delude ourselves at times, but we are not. The changes to elder care, insurance and what docs are doing to compensate with Washington's edicts, has been driven home to me since relocating to another state and being on Medicare.
It ain't pretty!
Trust in God and realize only HE is in charge in the end...and this world is not our home...not really.
Prayers continue for strength and peace