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Extra Purry, Extra Playful
"Takayuki" wrote in message ... "jmcquown" wrote: ... Once Mom took to her bed she only jumped up on it once when I was changing her bedsheets (this was before Mom went into the hospital and broke her hip). I got Mom to walk in and see how a cat reacts to making changing the sheets into an adventure. Mom laughed at that Persia only cautiously ventured in to see Mom from the doorway once Mom was bedridden. When Mom did come home from the hospital one of the first things she asked me "where's our cat?" Of course with all the people around Persia was hiding and I told her so. I did carry Persia into her room before she died so she could reach out and pet Persia. She'd never actually gotten to pet her before. She said "She's soft." Yes, she is. This is very cute. But I'm taken aback by how suddenly you lost your mom. I thought that she must still have been healthy to have been taking care of your father all those years. It can be shocking to see how fast a person can fail when their partner dies. Even when any outsider sees nothing particularly close in their relationship. It is terribly hard to watch it happen and not be able to do anything about it. Loss of the will to live is a very real thing, and very hard to treat. Often you don't realize that the only thing holding them together was the other person needing them and relying on them. Without that they can't cope. I don't know that was the case with Jill's mom of course, but I saw it happen to my uncle. Jo |
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Extra Purry, Extra Playful
"Jofirey" wrote | It can be shocking to see how fast a person can fail when their | partner dies. Even when any outsider sees nothing particularly close | in their relationship. | | It is terribly hard to watch it happen and not be able to do anything | about it. Loss of the will to live is a very real thing, and very | hard to treat. | | Often you don't realize that the only thing holding them together was | the other person needing them and relying on them. Without that they | can't cope. It can also work in precisely the opposite fashion. Case in point: my parents. Being needed and relied on by my mother was the single most significant factor in bringing about my dad's death at 65. After he was gone, she lived 16 more years - and she was 4 years older than him to begin with! |
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