Arts & Humanities The Things That Make You Sad Thread

[rocker_oz33]

We have a sick Cat .
Don't how long we have her for ..
Vets already told us to make plans.
But she's keeps trucking along .
Some days she eats some days she doesn't .still purrs heaps.
I feel she wants to run away to die.
She's prob 16 ish ..

 

[raskolnikov]

My other dog is pining the loss of his mate. He's hardly eaten since we lost him.

 

[Shell]

My cat Snow definitely mourned our Tiger. She was lost without him.
She even began mimicking his meow- which really freaked me out at one point.


And once she went, Sandy definitely became more "clingy" towards us. Animals absolutely feel it.

 

[rocker_oz33]

My other dog is pining the loss of his mate. He's hardly eaten since we lost him.

Give him lots of love .


Dogs adjust really well but might take a week or two.



Took my labs about a month to let Rufus the Westie into their pack .

 

[raskolnikov]

It never rains but it pours. My mum passed away this morning.

 

[dogs105]

It never rains but it pours. My mum passed away this morning.

So sorry mate!!

 

[Gralin]

It never rains but it pours. My mum passed away this morning.

sorry for your loss rask

 

[Billy ray]

It never rains but it pours. My mum passed away this morning.

sorry for your loss.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

It never rains but it pours. My mum passed away this morning.

So sorry to hear . Was it unexpected?

 

[raskolnikov]

So sorry to hear . Was it unexpected?

Not really. She'd been quite frail for a couple of years.

 

[the_interloper]

It never rains but it pours. My mum passed away this morning.

Condolences my man

 

[Neese]

It never rains but it pours. My mum passed away this morning.

I'm sorry for your loss.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Sending you condolences and big hugs, raskolnikov

 

[Cruyff14]

Ah Rask, that's awful mate. Hope you're OK.

 

[rocker_oz33]

It never rains but it pours. My mum passed away this morning.

Sorry to hear .
.

Big hugs .

 

[Sinjin Smith]

It never rains but it pours. My mum passed away this morning.

Really sorry to hear that. You just don't know where to put yourself. My sincerest condolences.

 

[Kram]

It never rains but it pours. My mum passed away this morning.

Virtual hug bro.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Dexter the Cat passed this morning/ overnight .
She been sick but gotten alot worse.
We were going to take her the vet today.


Edit.

I buried her in the garden rose petals as a base and roses on her.
RIP.

 

[Off The Couch]

So sorry to hear that raskolnikov - big hugs for you

It’s going to be an even more difficult time for you given your relationship with your sister - take care of yourself and try not to get caught up in it all. Just grieve your mum

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

Condolences Rasko.

My mother died in July. She would have been delighted to have outlasted Queen Betty.

She spent the last year of her life in resi care. I was no longer physically or mentally capable of providing the 24/7 care I’d done during Covid. She was 97.

Grieving is an odd thing. I grieved for my mothers progressive loss of insight as dementia kicked in far more than her eventual death. My predominant reactions were pure relief and guilt about feeling that relief.

We have been great at increasing quantity of life but crap at increasing quality. Unhappily our loss of brain plasticity at circa 85 on is at odds with the numbers who will make advanced age. We are unable to evolve quickly enough as a species to take advantage of extended life.

No way am I hangin‘ around and losing what few marbles I have. Happily having been a committed smoker plus some other health issues will ensure I don’t qualify for extreme age.

 

[Neese]

I lost my Grandma to dementia in 1994 and Mum to it last year. We have not come anywhere really in treating this awful condition.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

My parents didn't live long enough to develop dementia (48 and 75) but both the in-laws developed it after turning 80. MIL's was worse; she became too unmanageable for family to look after . FIL's Alzheimer's was deceptive in that he could seem perfectly normal, but lots of things happened that weren't.

 

[the_interloper]

So sorry to hear that raskolnikov - big hugs for you

It’s going to be an even more difficult time for you given your relationship with your sister - take care of yourself and try not to get caught up in it all. Just grieve your mum

At times of a major death in a family that's when s**t can kick off. I was worried about this when my mum died, I'm close to my three brothers and we stayed rock solid through it, I figure we will be forever now.

 

[nobbyiscool]

Condolences Rasko.

My mother died in July. She would have been delighted to have outlasted Queen Betty.

She spent the last year of her life in resi care. I was no longer physically or mentally capable of providing the 24/7 care I’d done during Covid. She was 97.

Grieving is an odd thing. I grieved for my mothers progressive loss of insight as dementia kicked in far more than her eventual death. My predominant reactions were pure relief and guilt about feeling that relief.

We have been great at increasing quantity of life but crap at increasing quality. Unhappily our loss of brain plasticity at circa 85 on is at odds with the numbers who will make advanced age. We are unable to evolve quickly enough as a species to take advantage of extended life.

No way am I hangin‘ around and losing what few marbles I have. Happily having been a committed smoker plus some other health issues will ensure I don’t qualify for extreme age.

You do a really good job of annunciating why dementia is so tough on families - you're essentially left the grieve the person that you knew and loved before they've died, which is an incredible mindheck, and I think explains your feeling of relief. Once they're gone you can actually grieve properly, rather than be in that awful halfway house of grieving a person who is still alive.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

People living in tents alongside the Brisbane River. And not just a few tents - dozens