Re(15): Bob-FM TO KC Posted on November 22, 2024 at 11:21:55 AM by just sayin
You're too young to have such mental health issues...I hope you have a younger woman to take care of you as you age, Jim. YOu definately should not be living alone to care for proper eating, taking your pills and all that.
My dad looked in on an elderly widow during her last years because her children moved to the east coast and left her alone in KC. Luckily dad was a kindly sort and visited her every couple days.
He found her on the floor once, a heavier woman and like the commercial said, she'd 'fallen and couldn't get up." She lay there until he came around and got her up, cleaned her up etc.
Hope you don't live all alone in PV. Aging people need someone to check on the welfare. You got sibs caring for your now very old parents down there in Goddard or have the passed, like mine did 20 years ago? That's mostly why we left KC, so not to live alone in KC.
Back in the day, people had houses big enough their parent(s) moved in or lived closeby. I was a genealogy buff and I noticed during the Depression, the 'head of the household' was the 80 year old and an unmarried child lived with them til they passed.
Today, we farm em out to nursing homes, or leave them to some friend, like my dad was for the old widowwoman. Her 2 sons finally showed up for the money and the heirlooms and went back east after the funeral.
Sad...I think that happens a lot. I was with my mom when she passed, but missed my dad's by abt 30 minutes. He lived in South KC near his gf and I lived up north so he passed when I was on 435 heading to visit him in the morning and then driving on to work. Sigh.
The best way to go is to get up in the morning, have sudden heart failure and just collapse after going to the bathroom, and be gone before the wife got an ambulance there. None of that lingering shit in the nursing home. She had a caretaker friend, her grown pool boy who got his reward in her will.
My single cousin who had cancer passsed in Wichita the same way...he had a younger woman looking in on him all the time. He didn't want his westcoast brother, or me to make that trip back there when he was making that final approach to land. He circled the field for a year. Like 3 yrs ago.
Today, many families scatter to follow careers and raise kids only to be left alone or leave their parents alone and visit twice a year after they leave for the coast, or wherever.
Wife and I were just talking about that, we youngest boomers always have had to stand in line til they built our schools in the early 50s and 60s while we were already in them. That was the story in Overland park when the Shawnee Mission schools were being built right as the developers were building neighborhoods in the 60s South of 75th street.
Now its a shortage of elderly apartment/assisted living communities. I expect lots of elderly my age are waiting for them...and they shoudl be done abt the time you need to move into one.
You're a bit younger than I am. But much more cranky!