[AT] Spmebody refresh my failing memory...

[Chuck Saunders]

I am sorry for your loss Cecil, may you both have your relief from this
horrible desease.
Chuck Saunders
Kansas City MO

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Gunnells, Bradley R <brad-gunnells at uiowa.edu
> wrote:

> My condolences Cecil for your loss.
>
> On Aug 6, 2010, at 5:53 AM, Cecil Bearden wrote:
>
> > Farmer:
> > I understand well what you mean about doubting the smallest things when
> > caring for a family member.  My ordeal with my Dad came to a close on
> Sunday
> > afternoon.  We had his funeral on Wednesday.  I feel like I am beginning
> to
> > slowly get my mind and my life back.  Dad was in bed for a year from a
> > heart/attack/stroke following a stroke from a blood clot due to the
> > amputation he had to undergo from a botched knee replacement surgery.
>  Now I
> > just have to get the final affairs done and I can maybe get back to work.
>  I
> > am about 4 weeks behind with my consulting work, and with this heat I
> will
> > probably catch up about January.
> > Cecil in OKla
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
> > To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <
> at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 8:52 AM
> > Subject: Re: [AT] Spmebody refresh my failing memory...
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Mike Sloane <mikesloane at verizon.net>
> wrote:
> >> Yes, it should be fine.
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >> On 8/5/2010 8:20 AM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> >>> I have the generator completely removed from my 4020. If I want to run
> >>> it 30 seconds to move it as long as I have the "ARM" and "FIELD" wires
> >>> completely removed from the regulator isn't the regulator and wiring
> >>> safe?
> >>> Dang I miss my mind... :-)
> >>>
> >>>
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> >
> >
> > Thanks Mike. I used to just do this stuff and hardly had to think
> > about it. I just knew it. These days I find myself double checking
> > myself over and over on simple stuff, not just the tough stuff. I
> > sometimes believe that my mother's long down-hill train crash with
> > Alzheimer's was almost as destructive to my mind as it was to hers.
> > That is why I keep advising guys that mention dealing with a parent
> > with dementia to never try to go it alone... Sometimes less connected
> > strangers can deal with things better. Happily my mind is "slowly"
> > coming back. (quit laughing guys...)
> > :-)
> > At my worst I had to look at a phone number maybe 4 or 5 times to be
> > able to dial it. Now I can read off the number and dial it fine. (I
> > just don't want to.)
> > ;-)
> > My problem wasn't dementia but more like PTSD. My father also had bad
> > dementia (not looking good for me) before he died but his heart failed
> > soon enough to spare him the worst of it. On a tractor note during his
> > last years I could not park a tractor or implement near the shop or he
> > would take the valve caps off of the tires. At his worst he would
> > sabotage stuff like pulling on the ignition on the Farmalls or let the
> > air out of a tire. I was buying 3 point lynch pins 2 dozen at a time.
> > I still have not found where he was stashing them. His last year was a
> > little better since he could not leave the house very much and he kind
> > of mellowed a little as well.
> > How did I get off on this tangent? :-)
> > Thanks again.
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > Be tolerant of almost everything but intolerance...
> >
> > Francis Robinson
> > aka "farmer"
> > Central Indiana USA
> > robinson46176 at gmail.com
> >
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