[AT] Tire chains

[Richard Fink Sr]

Farmer after reading your post i feel somewhat as ease. I had my 3rd 
chop open in May 2013 and as you said it is coming back slower than i 
would like. Then i june i lost my wife of 45 years just starting to feel 
like i am still alive again. And getting to do a hour or so work each day.
R Fink
PA




On 1/14/2015 3:31 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 6:52 AM, Cecil R Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Farmer:
>> I remember when your tractor had the gearbox frozen with water when we
>> tried to load a generator onto the fire truck that I was driving from
>> Mt. Holly NJ to Oklahoma.  I still have the truck, and have not been
>> able to get it equipped like I wanted.  Round tuits, health problems,
>> family deaths, and just plain no time has really hampered me getting
>> anything done.
>>
>> Cecil in OKla
>>
>>
> This is kind of a mindless ramble. I'm good at mindless rambles these
> days...
> I'm a member in good standing of the round-tuit / health problems / family
> deaths club... Toss in a father, mother, maternal grandfather and 3 aunts
> who rode the Alzheimer bus all the way to the end of the line. Actually my
> father was the lucky one of the bunch. His heart gave out before he got as
> bad as my mother. Still he managed to get several years in sabotaging me
> regularly before his doctor ordered him to stay in the house. Mostly little
> stuff like stealing lynch pins, valve caps, gas caps or turning on ignition
> switches or headlights. He actually mellowed a little before he died and
> did always know me. My mother on the other hand rode that bus all the way
> to the edge of the planet and dropped off of the edge (over a 10 year run).
> I finally had to quit farming because I could not keep her safe and still
> farm. Her care became a full time job and then some. Diana's mom was a
> great lady and sharp as a tack. But she lived with us for 3 years at the
> same time my mom was really bad at home. She was nearly totally blind,
> nearly totally deaf and could only get around with a walker. Then after we
> finally had to put my mom in a home for 24 hour care Diana's mom had a
> fight with cancer. Diana's siblings saw how it all was dragging her down
> and approached me saying that they believed it was time for their mom to go
> to a nursing home.
> The home mom was in said that she needed to go to a psychiatric center for
> a 3 week evaluation. We were driving  from the Richmond IN hospital where
> Diana's mom was having cancer surgery to the Greenfield IN hospital to
> arrange for my mom's evaluation when my cell phone rang and it was the
> Shelbyville IN hospital. The home had sent my mother there by ambulance
> because she was out of control. They told me to skip the Greenfield
> hospital, that they would set it up by phone. They needed me at the
> Shelbyville hospital because they could not handle her. I had to drive her
> to the Greenfield center because the ambulance people said that they
> couldn't handle her... When I got there the staff said they would handle
> things. Instead they finally came to the waiting room and said that they
> couldn't manage her. I had to go up and physically place her in her room
> with her yelling and screaming. I really wish I could forget that day... I
> think she just sat around sedated for most of the 3 weeks but it probably
> billed nice. I wasn't supposed to visit her often so we went once a week.
> She did always know Diana and I except for the last weeks of her life but
> nobody else. When she died a year or so later she remembered nothing.
> You can see why I am getting older nervously... So far so good but my only
> sibling, a sister who is  3 years older, is now bad enough that her
> immediate family cannot leave her alone...
> Diana and I are both doing fairly well now but we came out of those years
> with very strong symptoms of PTSD. I blame many of our health problems of
> more recent years on the stress of those years. Severe stress just isn't
> good for you.
> Many of my current "complaints" stem from drug side effects, mostly the
> Lipitor. Pesky stuff at maximum dosage. I'm still pretty good at the
> keyboard where I can go back and edit but if we were sitting and talking
> you would notice that I stumble a lot and sometimes struggle for some word
> I know that I know but can't make it float to the surface.  [?]
> They told me ahead that recovery from my "chop-open" bypass would take
> about 6 months but afterwards they started stretching it out. I think they
> don't want to scare people out. [?]  Still, I keep slowly getting better and
> my mind is getting slowly clearer. I can now work a couple of hours a day
> most days and the problem solving part of my brain keeps poking up and
> looking around.  [?]
> I'm quite hopeful for a good spring.
> .
> Still checking the grounds...
>
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