What would be your worst real life night mare?
07-10-2012 | 02:38 PM
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From: Loveland, CO
That's an easy one, I'm watching my father in law go through it now.
Living out his days with dementia, warehoused away in a full care facility, waiting to die.
For the record, he is in a very high end facility but in the end it's still the same.
even if the walls have pretty wallpaper with nice pictures and attentive staff, it's still just a warehouse.
Living out his days with dementia, warehoused away in a full care facility, waiting to die.
For the record, he is in a very high end facility but in the end it's still the same.
even if the walls have pretty wallpaper with nice pictures and attentive staff, it's still just a warehouse.
07-10-2012 | 03:07 PM
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From: Auburn, GA
To slowly lose my mind, being fully aware of it, and not able to do anything about it. I have a younger brother living with Paranoid Schizophrenia and a father who died from Parkinson's. I wouldn't like to go out either way.
07-10-2012 | 04:03 PM
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Agree with the OP. One of the people who works for me just had a brother in law finish a 34 year term for being an accomplice to a murder. Hearing the stories about 8 months in the infirmary after being savaged with a broomstick makes me realize I do not have the skills to survive that life. That would be my worst nightmare.
07-11-2012 | 04:44 AM
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Tony, my Dad wasted away from Parkinson's too. To me its worse than dementia since he never lost his ability to think/know/be aware. He just became trapped in a body that refused to move or function and he was in terrible pain. I wouldn't wish this on my enemies.
07-11-2012 | 10:30 AM
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Easy one. Losing one of my kids.
In line with the dementia fears, I think it would be worse to suffer one of the several medical conditions that render one totally unable to move or communicate but able to see, hear, and taste, and with mental faculties fully intact.
In line with the dementia fears, I think it would be worse to suffer one of the several medical conditions that render one totally unable to move or communicate but able to see, hear, and taste, and with mental faculties fully intact.