tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137720809430579183.post2043593592403877365..comments2023-09-01T17:15:39.570-04:00Comments on The Paleo Drummer: A corner, turnedSteve Kirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07196209369347662434noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137720809430579183.post-66770761722817574512012-10-15T15:31:17.378-04:002012-10-15T15:31:17.378-04:00Yes, I get you. That's a completely different ...Yes, I get you. That's a completely different kind of stress. My mother's lifetime haul actually DID yield a few surprises (though nothing to rival my poor friend's.), which kept me on my toes while sorting through it all. Fifty years of paint cans and washers is irredeemable. <br /><br />Makes the astonishing dimension your Dad seems to have reached within his own mind all the more remarkable, I suppose. I've never heard of anything quite like THAT before. Kolley Kibberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07055145770836351738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137720809430579183.post-76523613814290477722012-10-15T05:19:59.345-04:002012-10-15T05:19:59.345-04:00To the screaming point? Yes, but always because of...To the screaming point? Yes, but always because of the sheer volume of the uselessness of what he failed to get rid of himself. It was dullsville all the way.Steve Kirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07196209369347662434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137720809430579183.post-30288991144545555242012-10-15T04:15:55.080-04:002012-10-15T04:15:55.080-04:00My mother had dementia for the last seven years of...My mother had dementia for the last seven years of her life until she finally bowed out on Millennium Eve, her body having been kept alive long after she had effectively left it. I get what you say about the questionable morality of grimly enforcing such appalling life quality on elderly humans, when you would consider it cruelty to keep an animal in such a state. <br /><br />Trawling through your Dad's fifty-year hoard must have been enough to bring you to screaming point at times. I hope you were at least spared the experience a friend of mine had recently, where while completing a similar task for her father she stumbled across an attaché case packed with a selection of quite imaginative sex toys, and a pack of condoms which was still 'in date' and had some missing (her Dad was 80 at the time....). No amount of Mick Jagger could erase the unbidden mental images which that little case evoked. Kolley Kibberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07055145770836351738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137720809430579183.post-48623898173205172332012-10-14T15:15:41.049-04:002012-10-14T15:15:41.049-04:00So sorry to hear what you and your Dad are going t...So sorry to hear what you and your Dad are going through. My father suffered with dementia, too. It's a heartbreaking disease to witness.Common Sense Designhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17231250908747802149noreply@blogger.com