[AT] Spmebody refresh my failing memory...

Fri Aug 6 07:39:31 PDT 2010

Thanks to you all.
It was a relief to him and everyone.  His last year was expensive to 
everyone concerned.  It was difficult to manage hiring caregivers and 
keeping the state from taking over in order to get his estate.  I had vowed 
to not lose the farms and I didn't.  However it cost over $100K to do it. 
In his last months, Hospice was the best thing that happened.  As we all get 
older and find that Doctors are more interested in the business of keeping a 
person alive rather than dying with dignity, we will allrealize that Dr. 
Kevorkian was just ahead of his time.

Cecil in OKla
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GWaugh" <GWaugh at wowway.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Spmebody refresh my failing memory...

> 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
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Chuck Saunders" <gooberdog at gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 8:46 AM
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>> 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" <
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>>> > 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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