[Hog's Gone Fishin]

Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

So we get Covid under control enough that travel is a go again. I started talking to my mom and dad about the trip. My mom called me today while I was on the lake and tells me that my father has been extremely tired recently. Well, in the last couple of weeks he started sleeping 14 hours, or more, every day. My mom took him to the Dr. The Doctor is scheduling a cognitive test to determine if it is Alzheimer's. His PCP thinks it is likely when mom pressed for opinions. I did a little research about early-onset dementia symptoms and age-related, etc. It is highly probable that my father has early-onset dementia. He is 80.
I am just not handling all of this stuff very well. I do not live in the same town anymore. My mom and dad are relying on others to take my mom to the stores in order to do the necessary shopping. I have not been around them much with all the Covid and me working at a hospital that is the Covid Unit for my region. I have been reluctant as have they, necessary precautions. So I haven't seen them for much of the last year. Evidently, they have been hiding things from me to let me live my life and not be a burden. My step-siblings have not been telling me or letting me know what is going on with my parents per their request.
I am so hurt, scared, and pissed that I just don't even know how to feel it all at the same time. I now need to start a search to try and find a position back home even though I do not want to live there. They have mentioned that I was the one that they thought would never leave our hometown. I have left there twice to live in other places.

Damn, that's tough, just went through the same with my parents the last few years but they both passed away last year. Now my wife is down to 50% lung capacity with COPD and I can hardly leave the house. I'm thinking about suing all the cigarrette companies. Why those things aren't illegal I'll never understand. She even had lung cancer last year but they caught it early since she has a chest xray every six months . Five radiation treatments supposedly killed it.
She's not even supposed to drive but had to go to the store to grab more cigs a few weeks ago . She plowed into a parked pickup truck, Totaled our car and his truck. All because she was down to two packs and couldn't wait for me to go the next day to get her more.