The Goat Pen

Aneurysms on large arteries that rupture can kill you quickly.

As opposed to you, killing us softly.

Jungle Rat wrote:What does bloody poop mean?

most likely hemorrhoids

crashcourse wrote:my dad just died from one in the aortic arch which is right above the heart. he never saw a doctor -never had an ultrasound not that he would have changed anything even if he knew

abdominal aneurysms are much easier to operate on and much easier to monitor--get an ultrasound in 6 mos and see if it gets bigger get the operation its safe if your overall in good health. keep the bp controlled

your welcome AA

BTW played golf yesterday and got two birdies then wife got me 18yo glenlivet bottle and tickets to mark knoffler for my birthday yesterday. then wisconcin wins and if they win again i win 590 bucks off a 25 dollar entry

for such a sucky last month at least the birthday was good

my condolences. It isn't easy.

Good to see you back, Owlman.

I guess by your "It isn't easy" comment you haven't been having the greatest of months.

My mother passed on January 30 after fighting cancer for two years. The hospice nurse gave her both Ativan and Morphine and put her in respiratory depression and she never woke up. She knew it was close and wanted to see my brother and sister that day to say goodbye to them. I am still pissed about this. Very hard on my father. They were married almost 62 years.

Sorry man.

Condolences, Spacer...

hate to read it Space

unfortunately the core group here is all at the age where we're going to face this sooner than we want - if we haven't already

sounds like you were engaged with her up until the end which is the best gift you can give her

I lost my father about 2 weeks before my daughter was born and my mother just turned 75 and has early stages of Parkinsons and has already fallen and broken her wrist. She is tough ole bird and still wants to live by herself and take care of things and she is doing okay for now.

Sorry for your loss Spacer.

Sorry about that Spacer. It's never easy losing a parent. I think of myself as lucky now at age 49 having lost both mine when I was young and don't have to face it. On the other hand, I would have given anything to have had my mom here these past 25 years or my dad the last 11 so my son would know his grandparents. It's all about the time you do have with someone and what they meant to you.

Sorry, Owlman. Mom's kind of keep us in line even when we are adults.

I didn't realize how much I had taken for granted when my mom was still here. She kept the house and yard neat and orderly. It's not like my dad is a slob or anything, but there is now stuff laying around that my mom would have never allowed. Also, we cleaned out the pantry the other weekend, just tossing a bunch of plastic shit and other stuff that was never going to get used, there were several boxes in which she had saved every card and letter and newspaper clipping that had anything to do with me or my brother. We did not throw those out, obviously...

Mom came to stay with me for almost a month in February - she can't climb stairs so I put a bedroom in my basement - bought a nice memory foam mattress, stocked the fridge we have down there, put in grab bars in the bathroom and I put in a sidewalk from the door of my walkout basement to my back deck and put up hand rails along it for her. I ended up going late into work almost every day waiting on her to wake up and make the walk up the sidewalk to get into the house and get settled upstairs for the day. If it snowed I'd go out and shovel a path for her.


That was a bitch but she cried when she left because she enjoyed staying with us so much so I felt pretty good as a son.

She is coming back up to stay another month in mid June. I'm going to get a lift chair for her and put in the house so she can get up and down. She'll turn 81 while she is here. There aren't going to be many more moments like that.

Just make sure there spring isn't coiled too tightly on the lift chair so she doesn't get launched through the air on the upstairs trip. That's a memorable moment you don't want...

hedge wrote:I didn't realize how much I had taken for granted when my mom was still here. She kept the house and yard neat and orderly. It's not like my dad is a slob or anything, but there is now stuff laying around that my mom would have never allowed. Also, we cleaned out the pantry the other weekend, just tossing a bunch of plastic shit and other stuff that was never going to get used, there were several boxes in which she had saved every card and letter and newspaper clipping that had anything to do with me or my brother. We did not throw those out, obviously...

Those things you unloaded on us all had expiration dates from 2012 or '13.

Saint wrote:Just make sure there spring isn't coiled too tightly on the lift chair so she doesn't get launched through the air on the upstairs trip. That's a memorable moment you don't want...

also, I want my own fucking recliner back.

"Those things you unloaded on us all had expiration dates from 2012 or '13."

Your boy will never know the difference...

He's not having any of it. She's put out by it though.

Hedge tried to poison Saint's boy with old ass tuna