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  On 14/11/2021 at 09:51, XTreme said:

I'm with Ronnie Van Zant on this....."You won't find me in an Old Folks Home"

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What you say @Tym?

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Never say never. Having visited a hell of a lot of them district nursing it totally changed my view. There are horrible ones that smell of cabbage and disinfectant and the occupants are dribblers but there are some amazing ones like a hotel where the staff will literally do anything for you, drive you about, provide entertainment, cook your meals, do the dull housekeeping tasks, broke your wrist? No problem Jeeves will even wipe your arse for you. You can join in or you can keep to yourself in your suite. Personally if I become infirm I can't think of a more pleasant place to be doddery. They suffer from a bad wrap and people view them with fear because they think they'll lose their autonomy, they see it as a failure, the reality is far different. 

It is however a move thats best researched and made before you have to. Someone who has a fractured neck of femur and is discharged straight to a care home they didn't choose will not be happy. Best to get ahead of it and pick out what you want and before you need it and hope you never do!

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We live in a OAP bungalow.😂

In theory we (7 years ago) didn't qualify for a bungalow being only 60 at the time, but wife's condition was so bad they made and exception.........no noisy neighbours here, but some damn nosey ones.😂

 

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  On 14/11/2021 at 10:46, Clive said:

We live in a OAP bungalow.😂

In theory we (7 years ago) didn't qualify for a bungalow being only 60 at the time, but wife's condition was so bad they made and exception.........no noisy neighbours here, bust some damn nosey ones.😂

 

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Whats up with the wiven?

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  On 14/11/2021 at 10:55, Clive said:

Osteoarthritis, knees, hips and in her feet....she had her knees replaced, but loathed to have her hips done, she s fine ish on short distance, any further and out comes the wheelchair..

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Same as mine!

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It was a bugger taking the wheelchair on holidays to Majorca, security at East Midlands airport seemed to have a suspicion that the wheelchair frame was full of contraband, take the armrests off, remove the wheels, ffs👿

Worse at Palma, Juan dropped the wheelchair from the loading hatch onto the tarmac, bent wheel, and broken armrest, bastids.👿

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  On 14/11/2021 at 11:03, Clive said:

It was a bugger taking the wheelchair on holidays to Majorca, security at East Midlands airport seemed to have a suspicion that the wheelchair frame was full of contraband, take the armrests off, remove the wheels, ffs👿

Worse at Palma, Juan dropped the wheelchair from the loading hatch onto the tarmac, bent wheel, and broken armrest, bastids.👿

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It gets damaged more than @Sir Fallsalot's Beta then?

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  On 14/11/2021 at 11:26, Clive said:

Genetics?, wife's mother had the same condition, and the wife's sister too, but she has it to a lesser extent......at the moment.

 

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Nobody in her family ever had it......so no idea where it came from.

But women do seem to be much more prone to arthritis than men!

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  On 14/11/2021 at 11:27, XTreme said:

Nobody in her family ever had it......so no idea where it came from.

But women do seem to be much more prone to arthritis than men!

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It certainly limits a person's lifestyle.....

Wife's condition makes my glass back seem like a minor irritant.

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