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Those are very moving photos.
The last time I saw my step-father was outside the church just after my mother's funeral service. We were driving off to the crematorium and he had been brought outside by one of my uncles to watch the hearse leave. He did not know where he was or what he was watching. In the church he had not known that he was at his wife's funeral. He'd given me a big smile when I walked in, like seeing a long lost friend. Before we had hardly been on speaking terms; he was a difficult man, always not on speaking terms with someone in the family at one time or another. His dementia had strangely robbed him of his animosity.
So there he was , a tiny, confused old man in a wheelchair watching his late wife leave for the final time, and who because of her own dementia he had not seen in 3 months, before going back to the nursing home where he would die soon after, still not knowing that his wife was dead and asking about her occasionally.
The fading of their mental faculties was much more painful than their deaths, becoming a parent to your own parent and seeing the real them show up less and less frequently until they are someone you recognise but do not know. -
My father went through the same with his parents, what hurt him more was the thought he would put us through it further down the line (he told me as much). I tried to put his mind at ease as much as I could (usually with light remarks to do with him having to wipe my arse at one stage so it's only fair the tables get turned - it felt like a better way to communicate). I think it's a subject that gets all to ignored until it happens.
Anyway, back to awesome photos.
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so sad, i'm terrified my dad will end up like that
Never mind parents getting like that - some day I feel like I'm half way there.
Mind you, that might be blessing.
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so sad, i'm terrified my dad will end up like that
Extremely moving but equally accomplished in its presentation. Thanks for sharing
My Granddad lost it a couple of years before he died.
It's devastating but I found the best way of dealing with it was to laugh. He was convinced my brothers friend was a secret agent and he would often tell us about playing piano in a cave in Vietnam(seriously).
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spiders climb in to the tress because of the flooding cocooning the the trees in webs!
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Are you sure they are spiders?
Quite often it's caterpillars that do that extreme crazy shit.
It happened in a park in Bradford a year or so ago:
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Picture time hey?
I'm loving that. Looks like a knee-wrecker in the big ring though.
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that looks like a fishing net being hurled upwards
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Not a photo but very nice nonetheless.
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so sad, i'm terrified my dad will end up like that