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Topic Started: Oct 16 2007, 10:10:02 PM (103 Views)
catgirl
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Ok so I know I'm not getting any younger, but just when did my parents get old! I don't mean old as in ancient old, but they are OLD!

Took my mum shopping today and she was after steradent tablets - she only has a small denture - no idea why this shocked me, after all they are getting on a bit, but compared to some of mate's parents they are pretty young. Both of them have aches and pains, both are on pills for high blood pressure and both have to watch their diet due to high chlorestol (sp). Mum also has to go to the quacks when she gets back as she now has a small problem with her kidneys which needs to be looked at when they go back in December.

They play bowls in the summer months and they do enjoy life, but they have got OLD! I'm sorry I still can't take this in, maybe its because I haven't seen them for a few months - no idea. But I can bet that in a few weeks they will be doing my head in!
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Snappy
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I can remember my Mum at the age I am now and thinking how old she was :lol: It dawned on me the other day after a long conversation with my Dad about how well his check up went at the doctors that he is getting older. It is funny as we still don't quite see it at times by being away from them we see the change in a more dramatic fashion......but then I still think I have the body of a 21 year old until I try on the odd boob tube and realise that the boob tube looks more like a belt instead of those perky little numbers I had back then :lol:
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Anne
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My dad has always been old to me. Well he was 50 when I was born and had grey hair so I never noticed him getting old until the recent event when he couldn't remember my name.
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Bordy
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Anne4Terry
16th October, 2007 - 10:23pm
My dad has always been old to me. Well he was 50 when I was born and had grey hair so I never noticed him getting old until the recent event when he couldn't remember my name.

Don't worry about it Helen it happens to the best of us.









:P
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Lynnj
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not seeing them for a while certainly brings it home to you. I think i still think on my parents as being like they were say 15 years ago and get a shock when they look 15 years older than i expected.

My Mum is 80 on friday :thumbsup:
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catgirl
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I think that's it, they always seemed so young and now they're not and the little things creep up and you realise that hey they are getting ona bit now.
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rjs
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Know the feeling ,it is a shocker ,found it especially with my Dad ,was always my big strong Dad when i was young (isnt really big or strong was just an odd child),but really notice how old he seems now .
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Bridiej
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Happy 80th birthday for Friday Lynne's mum :flowers:
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Jane
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:rofl: Bordy!

I had to adjust to my mum being toothless in her 40's as she accidently had her teeth kicked out by a disabled child whilst nursing her.

Apart from that at 76 she has had a hip replacement and lives in a private retirement flat. However even though my Dad died 14 years ago she has remained active and she has just returned from a weeks holiday at an Austrian Spa. She's definitely slower but she values her independance and is detirmined to stay active. Dad favoured quite unhealthy food and it has been amazing to she how she has chosen to change things over the years, to make the most of her retirement.

Jane
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Tiredwithtwins
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whilst me and mum were sat in the doctors this morning i glanced sideways at her and thought of this thread - and bloody hell she looks old!!!

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tiredwithtwins
17th October, 2007 - 06:52pm
whilst me and mum were sat in the doctors this morning i glanced sideways at her and thought of this thread - and bloody hell she looks old!!!

:kiss:
and they can't do the things that they used to - my mum walks a lot slower than she ever used to - i used to have problems keeping up with her - even as a teenager, but now i'm getting my own back!
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catgirl
17th October, 2007 - 12:17pm
:kiss:
and they can't do the things that they used to - my mum walks a lot slower than she ever used to - i used to have problems keeping up with her - even as a teenager, but now i'm getting my own back!

:lol: :yes:

mind you, im over a foot and ahalf taller than my mum so ive always been able to walk faster than her. shes a short arse :lol:
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tiredwithtwins
17th October, 2007 - 07:32pm
catgirl
17th October, 2007 - 12:17pm
:kiss:
and they can't do the things that they used to - my mum walks a lot slower than she ever used to - i used to have problems keeping up with her - even as a teenager, but now i'm getting my own back!

:lol: :yes:

mind you, im over a foot and ahalf taller than my mum so ive always been able to walk faster than her. shes a short arse :lol:

:lol:
i did tell my mum I was putting her on a boat and sending her back today :nah:
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Anastasia Beaverhausen
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When I came back from Australia 10 years ago, my folks were at the airport to pick me up and I couldnt get over how much older my mum looked. And that was only after a year away.

We will be picking them up from the Airport in December, and that will be 18 months since we last saw them, so I am preparing myself already!!!
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I went back in '91 five years after coming here.

Bit of a shock.

Then when I went back in '94 it was a mercy dash. Dad ill in bed with his heart and shingles. Mum, well...becoming more and more erratic as Alzheimers seemed to claim her very soul. She looked like my Mum, but it wasn't her, not really.

I remember one day when Dad was a bit better, taking him into town to the hospital for a check up. I was present at the interview and he sat on the couch with his shirt off and looked incredibly vulnerable, so that it twisted me inside.

Then I dropped him at the building society and went to park the car. Bless him, he wanted to withdraw the funds to pay for my trip ( I had stayed a month). I wandered into the building society to find him and my eyes scanned the room, flicking past the old balding man with the almost white hair leaning across the counter talking earnestly to the assistant. Dad was nowhere to be seen. Then I realised. That old man was my dear darling Dad. I almost wept there and then on the spot. Can't forget that moment.

I got back to Australia and 10 weeks later he was gone. Mum sank into oblivion and stayed there for a further 5 years before she was reunited with Dad.

Cherish them. Life is so short and the time you spend here shrinks the years you have left with them.

The tyranny of distance.

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