My Dad.

Best wishes to you and your family Vita, I can empathize with you as my mum is very ill as well. I'll keep my finger crossed for him.
 
I will pray for the best for your father.

Greenlizard0 said:
A scientific study was performed in America about whether those that were measurably and actively prayed for, had different survival rates to those that weren't. I remember the programme well, because it was done around the time of the 9/11 attacks so a lot of patients unsurprisingly refused prayer by Muslims.

No differences, statistical or otherwise were found in survival rates.
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This really isn't the right thread to refute God and/or divine intervention.
 
Whoever turns this thread into a religous debate is a C word.

Stop thinking about your opinion, and think of Vita and his family please, and send your best wishes towards them :)
 
i understand how you feel. and i hope things turn out ok for you.
My mum had Dementia, and it was the most harrowing thing i have ever been through, ill never forget when i had to put her in a home, when dad who was her carer became sick and had to go into hospital.
I look after my dad now, he lives in shelterd accomadation, just ten minutes up the road from me, i see him everyday take him down the pub for a drink, but he is just losing the will to live, i can see it draining out of him, no matter how i try and cheer him up.
He can still make me laugh though at times, wouldnt be without him.
 
Sorry to hear that. Hope your dad gets better :) stay strong.
As mentioned, 90s is very good as well.
At least you can still speak to him, my gran who is nearly 76 has Alzheimer's. She got to the point a year ago at least that she can't follow a conversation or nothing. Forgets things extremely quick also. Within the last few months she has forgotten on a few occasions that she has children and grandchildren. And reckons that the cleaner who comes once a week is trying to steal my grandad away from her.,
 
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my thoughts are with you man.

i hope your father gets better soon, and try not to dwell on things, it'll only make you feel worse.

be positive, and supportive to your dad, it's the best you can do right now :)
 
oli356 said:
Get out.



Sorry to hear that. Hope your dad gets better :) stay strong.
As mentioned, 90s is very good as well.
At least you can still speak to him, my gran who is nearly 76 has Alzheimer's. She got to the point a year ago at least that she can't follow a conversation or nothing. Forgets things extremely quick also. Within the last few months she has forgotten on a few occasions that she has children and grandchildren. And reckons that the cleaner who comes once a week is trying to steal my grandad away from her.,
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I remember a couple of years back a story about a cat that could supposedly sense when patients in an Alzheimer's clinic where going to die. Was quite a bit of buzz around it and on the internet. Anyway, one of the doctors wrote a book about it, "Making the rounds with Oscar". I got the book because I'm interested in pets (particularly dogs, I don't even really like cats) being able to sense when people are going to have diabetic or epileptic seizures and can sniff out things like cancer. So I got it expecting a good read on that sort of thing. Instead I was given a view into the world of Alzheimer's patients and families dealing with it which I knew very little about before. It was very eye opening.
 
Thanks for all the support/replies guys. I just got off the phone to him, he says he's drank a big glass of Milk which the nurses have given him, so it's a good sign. Since whatever he was eating was coming straight back out. I do really hope he gets better, it's just he's hating the fact he's confined to a bed because he is such an active fellow.

He could stay out 5 hours in winter just doing work in the garden. And I'm not lying either. Just going to have to wait on the results from the biopsy now, hope they come back with good news.

Cancer is a very bad thing, I really hope one day they find a cure for it. I've lost a couple of family members to Cancer and it just hits home even harder when it's someone that you've been brought up by. :(
 
90 is a great age, I know why you are so quirky, must be weird having a dad that is like a granddad
 
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Castiel said:
I sometimes wished that I had that kind of bond with my Parents that you and others here obviously have.

Good Luck to you and yours and I hope your Father is well soon.
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I was going to say this too. To hear how emotional you are from it I feel strange in the sense that if it was my dad i think i would really be sort of hard lined about it. I can't really explain it and you can never know until it actually happens. My flat mate and his family are so incredibly close its amazing / border line odd but its lovely.

Hope your dad gets better dude.
 
That's a really impressive age and I can imagine how difficult it for you and his family. He's obviously kush naseeb, hena? Insha'Allah he'll be fine. Be there for him and each other. As difficult as it is to visit him, do so.

You'll be in my dua's. Chin up fella :)
 
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