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cherylpf
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 Posted: 10/03/05 - 20:00 Post subject: I don't like growing up
just had a conversation about my parents and some assisted living place they want to move into "someday".  Someday??? You're practically CHILDREN! Who needs assisted living??? You're barely drawing social security!  Actually, I'm glad they are thinking about it now while everyone is coherent and healthy. But, I don't want to think about my parents getting old.  /let me live in denial
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jrjo
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Posted: 10/03/05 - 20:04 Post subject:
...psst pfff... if they're collecting ss, they aren't spring chickens.
/said by riff-raffer with parents far from ss age 
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cherylpf
crazy cat lady
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Posted: 10/03/05 - 20:06 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: | ...psst pfff... if they're collecting ss, they aren't spring chickens.
/said by riff-raffer with parents far from ss age |
pssst jrjo....I am living in denial here....let me believe that mid 60s is very very young... please...
Your parents ARE a lot younger than mine, and you're older than me... sounds like the beginning of "I am my own grandpa" no? 
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Ms. Jenn
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Posted: 10/03/05 - 20:07 Post subject:
Both my parents needs to sell their friggin' house and move into a retirement village, BUT NO, they won't.
They're way old too. (69 and 64)
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crazyfrog
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Posted: 10/03/05 - 20:09 Post subject:
| Ms. Jenn wrote: | Both my parents needs to sell their friggin' house and move into a retirement village, BUT NO, they won't.
They're way old too. (69 and 64) |
matts grandparents are at that point too. they are in thier mid 70s.
his great aunt and uncle are way beyond that point. they are in thier mid 80s
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cherylpf
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Posted: 10/03/05 - 20:15 Post subject:
| Ms. Jenn wrote: | | They're way old too. (69 and 64) |
Bah! mere children! they've got a lifetime ahead of them!!!!
I need therapy...
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Cappy
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Posted: 10/03/05 - 20:32 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | Ms. Jenn wrote: | | They're way old too. (69 and 64) |
Bah! mere children! they've got a lifetime ahead of them!!!!
I need therapy... |
I bet they still  too
Now you will definitely need therapy
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JACKED UP
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Posted: 10/03/05 - 20:45 Post subject:
My mom is 62 and fairly healthy considering the fact that she smokes like a chimmney. Gramma is 86 and still lives alone! 
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Ms. Jenn
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Posted: 10/03/05 - 20:49 Post subject:
| Cappy wrote: | | cherylpf wrote: | | Ms. Jenn wrote: | | They're way old too. (69 and 64) |
Bah! mere children! they've got a lifetime ahead of them!!!!
I need therapy... |
I bet they still too
Now you will definitely need therapy |
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Sahara
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Posted: 10/03/05 - 21:38 Post subject:
My parents are 76 & 79, live in their own home, and are vibrant. Though not recently, we've talked about the possibility of assisted living and know where that will be should it ever be necessary. It's a beautiful place where some friends from their church have gone... in Mars, believe it or not.
My maternal grandmother lived on her own through age 94. She moved from Columbus to Pittsburgh, into an apartment when she was about 80. She lived with my parents in her failing year & a half.
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jrjo
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Posted: 10/03/05 - 23:24 Post subject:
| Sahara wrote: | | My parents are 76 & 79, live in their own home, and are vibrant. |
The day someone calls me 'vibrant'.... 
...I'm just sayin'
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robp
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Posted: 10/04/05 - 06:42 Post subject:
My mom will be 70 in a couple of weeks and ain't showing many signs of slowing down. Still maintaining (with my help) the house I grew up in quite well.
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rolling rock
The Pinball
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Posted: 10/04/05 - 07:19 Post subject:
well, my dad is 82, bless his heart. still goes to downtown pgh twice a week for work, still bitches about the "ratrace", still plays golf 4x a week,and enters senior tournaments, still wears "spiderman" tshirts under his polo, still drives his lexus to florida for the winter, and sings karokoe in dive bars....he's thought about assisted living, i think his idea of assisted living is breakfast at mcdonalds and two other squares at the golfclub....i believe it could be worse but underneath it all, i think he's really kinda. lonely.  assisted living would, at least, surround him with other people his own age although, for him, i'm not sure that would be a good thing in certain respects.
watching parents age is gut-wrenching. and yes, 60s are young; they've got lots of living to do pf. 
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prohemp
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Posted: 10/04/05 - 07:37 Post subject:
Your father sounds like an amazing man RR - good for him!!
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akern
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Posted: 10/04/05 - 07:42 Post subject:
I was recently approached by my parents about their wishes when they go. Apparently I'm the one they want to handle everything.
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