[AT] Spmebody refresh my failing memory...

GWaugh GWaugh at wowway.com
Fri Aug 6 07:17:08 PDT 2010


We watched our Dad, a fellow who worked his way through a PhD at Purdue with 
no outside help at all and went on to become an internationally recognized 
expert in tropical agriculture, go downhill for waaay too long.  As a number 
of you obviously know, it is so very hard to go from being the life-long 
student to becoming the teacher.  I hated it.

Condolences for your loss, Cecil, but I know that it comes with blessings 
for all involved as well.

Good luck with getting caught up!!

Gene Waugh
Elgin, Illinois USA

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From: "Chuck Saunders" <gooberdog at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 8:46 AM
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] Spmebody refresh my failing memory...

> 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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