Call Your Dad

[oldhippy]

This thread has such great feeing to it. The longer I'm on TPF, the more I like the people on here.
I think it helps to put things in words,
Have a great day. Ed

 

[MSnowy]

l lost my Superhero 2 year ago, my dad

 

[limr]

Thanks Sharon. I had to laugh when I read what your father would say on the phone: "Here's your mother." My father wasn't much of a phone talker either. First, he'd ask me a few questions about my car: "How's the car? Did you change the oil? How does the clutch feel?" Then he'd always ask, "Are you happy?" And then he'd pass me onto my mother.

It's all he cared about - that I was taking care of my car and that I was happy.

Yeah, like others, I wish I could. My father died 25 years ago, my mother 4 years ago.

Alzheimer's disease is one of the worst things that can forced on a family. I don't know how it is for the victim but for the family it is horrible. The last words my mom said to me, a few days before she died, were, "Who are you?"

I'm so sorry :hug:: My father was beyond that point when he died. He was very healthy and strong, so he lived with it for 10 years after diagnosis. By the time he died, he couldn't talk at all and was bedridden.