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Indeed.

"Maintaining course and speed"...there's the be-all and end-all for us more experienced treefolk, eh? Well said, Fiona my friend.

:lol: Yessir, that is correct.

For sure...I can relate, though the scale of the treework that generated my "exclamations" usually pales in comparison :).

Yessir!!

Wow. Bet that's an interesting read.

Indeed!

That's true, Butch. If the caregivers know someone is in there regularly and paying attention, better care is usually the result.

The damnedest part of it, in thinking I'd never want to be in one of those senior care homes...those people earning not much over minimum wage, who had to put up with my mother's bitchiness and abusive shenanigans for years...many of them came to her bedside as she was in her last days after her...

Not an easy path, but hell, she changed my diapers many a time...what goes around comes around.

I was pretty good on getting in to be with my momma, too. Plus all the financial, medical appointments, clothes, and other needs of daily life, etc. No way she was abandoned, trust me...I have the emotional bruises to show for it.

The doctors don't get many of your kind here either, my old friend. Nor my kind, come to think on it :). Accolades to you, from another "experienced" fellow, with a somewhat damaged body still making my way through as best I can.

If we ignore it, or say "I'll put a barrel in my mouth", or think we can just work until we die, no problem...that is not reality. By the time most of us are not able to take care of ourselves, we may well not be able to "do the deed"...not for lack of will, but for lack of ability. Mental...

This is a tough subject. Having financial resources is key to making it not suck, imo...though attitude is nearly, maybe even equally, as important. I saw my wife's parents move from their home of more than 50 years into a much above average independent living/assisted living/dementia...

Agreed, Fi.

Hey! Like Butch said. Sean?

Do fine? Meh...maybe not so fine, but no choice in the matter.

Indeed. See the Retirement Planning thread :).

Hell, I retired at 58 and am glad for it. Started working in the woods when I was 16, in between high school and college sessions. I'm enjoying my leisure years a great deal :D. Work when I want, don't more often than not!

Keep telling yourself that, Buddy :D.