castle49
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My dad has dementia, and when my mother died on their vacation to Antartica/South America, though he was there he still does not understand where she is. He cannot process the information, or does not want to.
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Wed Mar 7 '12 3:45:25 pm
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aussieRGman
Jason Ramsay
planet nowra, NSW
Australia
Plays: Guitar (48 years)
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hi castle49, i know what your going thru with the dementia, with your dad, my mum had it , very tough , the best bit, not that its a good thing , is that they dont know they have it, like my mum would always say when in hospital, take me home im fine, but she wasnt , but she didnt know anybetter..
Sometimes life gives you crap days and good days,
i had alot of health issues last year and hope ill be ok this year, and even tho id love to work full time but just coulndt due to my health issues i feel guilty about it ..
but thats life..
hope your feeling ok michelle
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Wed Mar 7 '12 9:22:18 pm
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aussieRGman
Jason Ramsay
planet nowra, NSW
Australia
Plays: Guitar (48 years)
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thanks cheese, i hope so too, i have been playing my guitar again too
my site
And i do a weekly pop / rock radio show on our local community fm station which is fun too..
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Thu Mar 8 '12 12:11:04 am
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mark greed1000
mark greed
hillingdon, uxbridge
greater london
Plays: Guitar (31 years)
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hi joe when are u coming back to london to rock?i was in the front row at the exel arena 2008 what a show man and you threw me 3 picks 2 of them i lost it drove me crazy take care mark greed.
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Thu Mar 8 '12 12:37:42 am
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sonic mayhym
chris velie
anchorage, alaska
united states
Plays: Guitar (44 years)
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Joe.. please Alaska desperately needs a show...we are so left out of the loop on everything and bad enough were treated like another country buy our country...fellow long time musician Michael schenker just played here with robin mccauley...great guitar show....we could use another..hell joe we are the largest state...how about a g3 in anchorage...there is 300,000 of us here just in anchorage...how about a big show for the biggest state...please!!!!
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Thu Mar 8 '12 2:18:47 am
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roo
Andrew Longhorn
iphone app: RooSatch
Australia
Plays: Guitar (34 years)
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Hey, so everyone knows Joseph kony right?
Man, kidnapping 30,000 children? Holy crap! He needs to be stopped.
Roo supports the effort to expose him, find him and bring him to justice!
Roo
Posted using Talk2Joe - one of Roo's iPhone apps
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Thu Mar 8 '12 2:41:54 am
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Razgriz
Joaquin Peloso
San Miguel, Buenos Aires
Argentina
Plays: Guitar (15 years)
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Hey Joe, here in Argentina we are wondering when you are going to come man! We need some Satch around here.. pronto! hahaha Thanks and I hope you get to answer me!!
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Thu Mar 8 '12 7:30:44 am
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castle49
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He's doing OK Michelle. I did not know much about it until the fateful trip. I found a great place for him that is very homelike and he has taken over the duties of taking care of the birds and the neighbor's cat. My mom never wanted pets and he is a lifelong animal lover. That part of him remains. Horrible disease though.
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Thu Mar 8 '12 10:11:30 am
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Two Shay
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Singapore, Ube, Yamaguchi, Tokyo, Dubai, Copenhagen, Kalundborg, Bilbao in the last couple of weeks, munich then home tomorrow. Knackered but it pays the bills. You can pop round for a beer on Sunday if you like Joe but don't bring that bozo Sammy! He drank all my best hooch last time.
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Thu Mar 8 '12 11:15:48 am
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wolf2
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How are yeah today. everything is fine with me man spring has arrived lots of water around wearing rubber hunting booots.Did some rdieing last night this moring the 406 man it burned 10 bucks.I won a pretty cool prize the other day from the wolf man you know how gas is like 1.50 a litre whic is a pint in Canada the wolf had a contenets man rif this! it,s callled where you guess the name of the song from the guitar chop and be the correct calller it was lets dance david bowie andyways i won a bruce sprinstein disc the new one 50 .00 to use at pionnner cash station or their store Im buying transmion and two stroke oil and 2 movie dvd of somekind cant remeber and 2 international cenetr custom car show tickets with the fonze their rons picking it up my cmha worker yeah the wolf phoned wanted a photocpoy of my licence sent with ron to pick up the 50..00 pioneer fuel card i sent hime with it told him he can have the car show passes ille pick the oil up in the spring beside cycle salvage theirs apionneer station im gonnna try to make a used carb work itll be almost 200.00 cheaper if i can so it should be a beuatiful used carbuerator though dont know what do dto about the formulamx man it,s deffinetly the crankseal hey have new ones put in keep rideing abort because age have no1 winter transportation ro or buy a new on ewill see most likely im pulling the enegine out taken it to bridnorth to r and j machine to have the botttom opened and new seals put in proble couple few hundred then put it back in and probably keep rideing it so thats all my prizes will be here next cmha meeting next visit I will have a fillin worker rons on holidays so were good anyways talk to you later a case of oil is probbly around 40 bucks or something hopefullly they have 2 cycle il and thicker morto oil for my transmission but oil is cheaper at pioneer maybe 30 dbucks a case or something anyways talk to you later wolfie2.
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Thu Mar 8 '12 11:18:32 am
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wolf2
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im not kidding yeah man i was rideing all night lon had destination but their were to people who are just in the bush man no trail no rodad were good carrried in my can 10 lietr reall earlie this moring later wolf2 havelock peterborugh around the lake this moring later wolf2.
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Thu Mar 8 '12 11:20:20 am
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cheese101
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Castle, sorry about your dad but I'm glad he's someplace where he can be safe and cared for, but also feel valued and that he still has a purpose. Dementia is a mean, mean disease.
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Thu Mar 8 '12 11:54:45 am
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cheese101
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castle, you are very fortunate to have a good place for your dad to live. I'm really glad for you both.
Unfortunately, that's not the norm. There are far too few memory care facilities and way too many people with dementia/alzheimers without a safe place to live. And not just safe, but where they are still treated like human beings and the staff is well-trained to deal with their behaviors. I deal with this almost daily and it breaks my heart for them, and for their families (if they have any or have anyone willing to be involved).
Anyway, on to Friday everyone....
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Thu Mar 8 '12 9:22:08 pm
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nodrog5150
gordon norman
haywards heath, west sussex
united kingdom
Plays: Guitar (40 years)
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Hi Joe, just a line to say that when my playing gets fustrating trying to emulate other great players while not having loads of hours of technique to fall back on...I just put on some joe backing tracks and im totally in the zone playing along again. theres only one other player that can do that to me and that's David Gilmour. I heard a track on the new pickin chickin 3 album and was very impressed with Sammys vocal...took me back to 5150 days...........I also decided to sell all my pedals and buy all the vox JS sig pedals...I currently have 2 saturators but will get the others within 3 months. The only one that will cost me a bit will be the EH pog. keep shredding!
cheers nodrog5150
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Fri Mar 9 '12 12:56:14 am
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