On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 20:40:55 +0100, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

> On 04/06/2015 12:11 PM, Stephen wrote:
>> Andrew got a life?
> 
> Hardly.
> 
> For the past month, I've been tending my grandfather, who has suddenly
> been hospitalised. Last time I saw him, he was a regular guy. Now we
> can't speak, can't walk, can't move some of his limbs, can't do much of
> anything, really.

Very sorry to hear this, Andrew.

> It's rather frightening to think that some day soon, it will be me
> sitting in that hospital bed, knowing that the end is near, and that
> there's nothing that anybody can do about it. Damn, I've wasted my life!

Hopefully not next week.  But as Stephen says, do things now that you 
don't want to look back on and regret not doing.

> The daft thing is... my grandfather himself seems to be the only person
> in the family who's *not* terribly upset about all this. For somebody
> who now can't do anything, he seems remarkably cheerful...

That's not uncommon, actually.  I was fortunate enough to speak to my 
father the weekend before he died - he was generally cheerful and 
talkative (he'd been diagnosed - incorrectly, it turns out - with 
Alzheimer’s; he had a form of dementia of sorts, but it wasn't what 
everyone thought it was), even though he was in the hospital.

Jim
-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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