tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post249206079818838880..comments2024-03-24T01:58:13.060-04:00Comments on One Day at a Time: Mind GamesTaborhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257045780724471840noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-25087979465208962072010-07-28T17:29:45.583-04:002010-07-28T17:29:45.583-04:00i am also compelled by thoughts such as these, esp...i am also compelled by thoughts such as these, especially since i recently reconnected with my brother whom i have not communicated with since we were kids (the parents got rid of me). you see, my brother, who has a wife and 2 preteen kids of his own, is dying from an incurable cancer. the enormity (and the unfairness) of it all it breaks my heart in ways i never thought possible. <br /><br />i GrrlScientisthhttp://blogs.nature.com/grrlscientist/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-19310129461347153682010-07-26T18:31:29.687-04:002010-07-26T18:31:29.687-04:00Illness can make you aware that life is not foreve...Illness can make you aware that life is not forever. When you are left alone you just do what you have to do. <br /><br />I have been alone for so long that I wouldn't want it any other way. You learn to adjust and move on.Darlenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18373134676852496647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-33754958938764974412010-07-26T18:30:45.460-04:002010-07-26T18:30:45.460-04:00Illness can make you aware that life is not foreve...Illness can make you aware that life is not forever. When you are left alone you just do what you have to do. <br /><br />I have been alone for so long that I wouldn't want it any other way. You learn to adjust and move on.Darlenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18373134676852496647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-58916556143621575992010-07-24T15:15:51.265-04:002010-07-24T15:15:51.265-04:00I hope both of you are feeling fine now and enjoyi...I hope both of you are feeling fine now and enjoying a still very long string of jeweled days.bobhttp://www.bobdunn.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-43031757453428805852010-07-24T08:14:49.654-04:002010-07-24T08:14:49.654-04:00Life is full of so many distractions it's easy...Life is full of so many distractions it's easy to forget our mortality and even how much we depend on each other.<br /><br />I think you have a lot of guts to write such a naked post and I enjoyed reading it as much as the next.<br /><br />I hope the bugs have gone.danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18430903702859437418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-12004340602654521882010-07-24T08:01:27.097-04:002010-07-24T08:01:27.097-04:00Grannie, do we complain more and therefore he/she ...Grannie, do we complain more and therefore he/she thinks it hits us harder? I don't complain, for sure. Having only visited a doctor twice this year and both for respiratory infections that would not go away!Taborhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15257045780724471840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-19358365400452093282010-07-24T07:38:45.738-04:002010-07-24T07:38:45.738-04:00Don't you hate having an illness and the docto...Don't you hate having an illness and the doctor tells you that it is so bad because, "it hits the elderly harder"?Granny Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18165058412950953296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-67380556307229846352010-07-23T18:26:57.893-04:002010-07-23T18:26:57.893-04:00Best to be practical and as prepared as we can be ...Best to be practical and as prepared as we can be for the eventual end of the journey. Having a ocmpanion will make it oh so much easier.Rosaria Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03133147851332084180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-24872753529731358232010-07-23T13:29:34.108-04:002010-07-23T13:29:34.108-04:00All of it, every word of it, recognisably true and...All of it, every word of it, recognisably true and only too real for me too. Friends and acquaintances are falling ill, and several seriously, one has already died. I hate it, i can't bear it, but I do and my life goes on.<br /><br />this old platitude "make the most of every day", perhaps it is a phrase to be taken to heart, although in the end, it won't matter even if you don&Frikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04277167831642088694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-48613701477633847522010-07-23T12:21:17.319-04:002010-07-23T12:21:17.319-04:00Send me your Grebe (?) picture and I'll see if...Send me your Grebe (?) picture and I'll see if I can ID it. Email addy on my blog.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06875150610109193368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-10301483313324480452010-07-23T08:32:48.602-04:002010-07-23T08:32:48.602-04:00Good morning, Tabor. Allow me to introduce myself....Good morning, Tabor. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Scorpio Woperchild -- one of the reviewers over at Ask and Ye Shall Receive. I can only presume that at some point in the last four to six months, you submitted for a review from us. <br /><br />Your time is <a href="http://iwillfuckingtearyouapart.blogspot.com/2010/07/schneider-might-have-made-it-better.html" rel="nofollow">now</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-69171773742959928492010-07-23T07:06:45.649-04:002010-07-23T07:06:45.649-04:00I, too, have been giving some thought to the time ...I, too, have been giving some thought to the time when one of us is left to finish the journey alone. Like you, I can get my head round me being the one, but the thought that it might be my wife, worries me because of her disabilities. That's the one that I can't get my head around. A thought-provoking post.Dave Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430484174826768488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-37822779656401137442010-07-22T22:45:03.021-04:002010-07-22T22:45:03.021-04:00I play out my own death and Joe's and our old ...I play out my own death and Joe's and our old age many times, especially since caring for my mother. I think it's just the way I "prepare" as I try to grok the reality of what will come.colleenhttp://looseleafnotes.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-5608714274979162762010-07-22T20:17:39.107-04:002010-07-22T20:17:39.107-04:00I am at this stage in life too; so far John and I ...I am at this stage in life too; so far John and I have been blessed with good health. So much so that I often wonder when it will stop, when the other shoe will fall. As it inevitably will.Kerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281288495129054688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-65276355468109955252010-07-22T17:44:36.961-04:002010-07-22T17:44:36.961-04:00You aren't the only one thinking along these l...You aren't the only one thinking along these lines. My husband will be retiring in a year or two, and we are headed off into the sunset (New Mexico). Most of my siblings have some sort of ailment or the other, and every once in a while, I get to thinking what if thoughts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-85211584542743977472010-07-22T14:58:31.316-04:002010-07-22T14:58:31.316-04:00Tabor, so much you share goes through my mind quit...Tabor, so much you share goes through my mind quite often.<br />I never thought I would spend my last days solo. Just never felt like those that came along were the right one. Now settled at being solo but there are times it would be nice to have another caring soul to share life with.One Woman's Journey - a journal being written from Woodhaven - her cottage in the woods.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12548226150115102345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-41452528378403725182010-07-22T13:20:14.006-04:002010-07-22T13:20:14.006-04:00There's so much to think about here. Jerry an...There's so much to think about here. Jerry and I were born in the same year, so it's a contest to see who lasts longer. The one who goes first will be the lucky one. <br /><br />I think I have enough money for assisted living if I get to that point. I love my children, but I would hate to live with any of them.20th Century Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11432147267959308192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-62102811304823369662010-07-22T13:15:33.506-04:002010-07-22T13:15:33.506-04:00I like to hang onto the thought that ultimately we...I like to hang onto the thought that ultimately we miss our life partner because we loved and shared so much. V hard to think of being alone, but also v necessary. Thanks for sharing this.Fredahttp://www.freda.org.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-2060600542760768512010-07-22T13:15:07.563-04:002010-07-22T13:15:07.563-04:00I like to hang onto the thought that ultimately we...I like to hang onto the thought that ultimately we miss our life partner because we loved and shared so much. V hard to think of being alone, but also v necessary. Thanks for sharing this.Fredahttp://www.freda.org.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-38284066516574601042010-07-22T12:17:39.670-04:002010-07-22T12:17:39.670-04:00So sorry about the bugs.
Yes too, as I grow old...So sorry about the bugs. <br /><br />Yes too, as I grow older and he grows vastly younger, I've thought of this quite a bit. My mother was very much older than her last husband, and I watched the two of them struggle with aging and death over a very many year period. We can plan and plan then at the end no one knows what's to happen next. I told G to just dump me in a nursing home Magehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17333086721654817750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-84654479405276608212010-07-22T11:59:38.675-04:002010-07-22T11:59:38.675-04:00And the older I get, the more I have these though...And the older I get, the more I have these thoughts. I told George he had to promise me that he would not die first... ha ha <br /><br />Life is precious ---and we never know from one minute to the next what will happen. My knee problem and surgery really caused a huge change in my life. For an active gal, this has been VERY hard... <br /><br />I guess this incident (which hit me hard) has Betsy Banks Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16223591156634767330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-48142626104432457832010-07-22T09:34:10.862-04:002010-07-22T09:34:10.862-04:00So true, indeed, and thoughts that come to all of ...So true, indeed, and thoughts that come to all of us at one time or another. <br /><br />Re your question: I was wearing the glasses - I always have them on.kenjuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342414519714356343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-34964194419522977052010-07-22T09:23:53.673-04:002010-07-22T09:23:53.673-04:00We can always plan ahead about how we are going to...We can always plan ahead about how we are going to feel when we lose a loved one and then, wham! we're faced with the actuality and we're stunned. <br /><br />I think these same "What will I do if I fall seriously ill?" thoughts and because I am alone, cannot come up with a satisfactory answer. There's not enough money for a decent old age home, not enough room to stay with Paulinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14555472024981357622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-7342363404448202262010-07-22T08:44:15.258-04:002010-07-22T08:44:15.258-04:00You spoke my inner thoughts so eloquently. :) Th...You spoke my inner thoughts so eloquently. :) Thank you.Angiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10386388066709376768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8039370.post-66692548759710192032010-07-22T05:34:45.105-04:002010-07-22T05:34:45.105-04:00Wonderful post...and so true! It is good not to b...Wonderful post...and so true! It is good not to buy one's head in the sand and think this journey will go one forever! It will end for all of us and we need to be prepared mentally, emotionally, and spiritually!<br />Hugs to you<br />SueAnnSueannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05299288406218968621noreply@blogger.com