What happens once Mom or Dad can no longer perform 2 or more of the daily living skills alone (e.g. feeding, bathing, dressing)?
Finally, Missy was able to get the checkbook away from dad and no one else could write checks for this blind man to sign.
Reassuring dad that you have no intention of taking over what he can do for himself, nor taking advantage of him in any way can help.
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"But don't lose Dad, because I have no idea what our connecting flight is!"
It was my stepmother, Janey Hovenden, who really had the hardest time when my father was suffering from ALS. For three years, she juggled work, my dad and me with virtually no breaks, but she never gave up.
Jon's father was an alcoholic with whom he had no relationship until his dad sobered up at age 65.
Her dad tells her that there are no guarantees but that scientists and doctors are working as hard as they can toward creating a treatment that will make this possible.
You just knew that no matter what mom and dad would be there to open the door.
There was no school or sports or mom or dad or caring, and it was great.
"My dad was from the streets, and he had no idea how to be a parent, " said Junior.
"I would tell people my dad was Hector Camacho, the boxer, and no one would believe me, " Camacho Jr. said.
He describes it as "Dad's ok, the dog's ok and no bad news".
"No one in the world I admire more than my dad, " she wrote in another tweet.
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My mom and dad love me and my four siblings immensely, but they were no pushovers.
We live in an era of unprecedented prosperity in no small part because the good guys, like my dad, had better technology than the bad guys.
No warning, no thinking that this might be emotional for a mother or dad to get through just an eruption from deep within me where my body literally shook.
"There is no one correct answer on how to deal with Mom or Dad's health issue, " so it's helpful to have time to think through the choices as a family.
They called each other by their first names (never "Dad" or "son"), and the first rule was:no hugs.
If a defibrillator had been nearby, "there is no doubt in my mind Louis would be alive today, " said Louis' dad, John Acompora.
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My colleagues knew what was going on and encouraged me to talk to my dad again, this time as a strong adult woman who was succeeding in a career and no longer financially dependent on my parents.
No matter what else happened, my brother and I had a full afternoon with my dad.
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They could no longer get the bus to school and had to be walked or driven by Mum or Dad.
No such octogenarian exemption, of course, but Solomon spent three hours on the phone with his dad working through the form.
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