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PawPaw_n_Gram
Dec 22, 2014Explorer
My mother's family has a history of Alzheimer's. My father planned to travel after he retired (1986) but Mom was already starting to show signs of problems.
1993 she went into a nursing home after he could not care for her anymore. 2008 she passed away, he used to go see her every day. Fed her most days. Stayed on the staff constantly about her care.
I've spend some of the time between 2008 and 2012 driving 500 mile round trips twice a month to check on him, take him to doctors, etc.
When we told him, and my brothers and sisters, that we were selling the house and going full-time - he was our biggest supporter.
"Do it now!! You never know what the future might be. Go!!"
Though, we do try to schedule so that we can visit him for a week at least twice a year.
And so he can tell me everything I don't know about towing and caring for a trailer.
PS - one thing he really likes is getting post cards.
We started mailing them rather than a phone call almost by accident, and learned he is old enough that post cards actually mean something. I've run into high school friends while visiting back home, who tell me that my father keeps the latest three or four and brags about our travels. He can share our travels that way - since he doesn't do Facebook, social media, blogs, etc.
He actually looks forward to receiving mail from us.
1993 she went into a nursing home after he could not care for her anymore. 2008 she passed away, he used to go see her every day. Fed her most days. Stayed on the staff constantly about her care.
I've spend some of the time between 2008 and 2012 driving 500 mile round trips twice a month to check on him, take him to doctors, etc.
When we told him, and my brothers and sisters, that we were selling the house and going full-time - he was our biggest supporter.
"Do it now!! You never know what the future might be. Go!!"
Though, we do try to schedule so that we can visit him for a week at least twice a year.
And so he can tell me everything I don't know about towing and caring for a trailer.
PS - one thing he really likes is getting post cards.
We started mailing them rather than a phone call almost by accident, and learned he is old enough that post cards actually mean something. I've run into high school friends while visiting back home, who tell me that my father keeps the latest three or four and brags about our travels. He can share our travels that way - since he doesn't do Facebook, social media, blogs, etc.
He actually looks forward to receiving mail from us.
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