[Desmond79]

This year has got to turn eventually into next year.

My parents become more difficult in their 80's. Mom fell in her 70's and it led to dementia. It's sad when your mother no longer recognizes you or her grandchildren, whom she helped raise. She died during Covid alone in a senior home - we saw her the day before her death - she had stopped eating and drinking. She had told us when competent to just let her die if she could no longer live her life as she had, so we let her go. She died in her sleep the day after we saw her.

It was difficult the last 3 yrs.

Dad is 91 and stubborn. He wanted to live with Mom at the senior home on the dementia floor. We tried to tell him - no. Well, guess what? With no one with whom to talk, he went downhill. We'd visit and take him out but his stubbornness cost him. He dove into senility, didn't want to wear his hearing aid, and during Covid, he has lost much of his cognitive abilities. He fell this week, hit his head, and has Afib. After I stop my quarantine, just got back from a business trip, I need to visit. But I fear his time is near. Tough to see your parents decline.

Makes you workout, read, stay active. You don't want to be your parents.