Twice this week, I have watched an elderly individual, fade into the busy life in which we all live. One man just needed Panadol for his wife but the shop assistant simply said it’s in ‘6’. But he struggled to navigate the supermarket and as I watched him go in the wrong direction, I left all my groceries and took him where he needed to go. Today, I watched an elderly man struggle in the heat, who had obviously had a fall with a huge scrape and blood on his leg. He walked past people in the cafe, while he slowly made his way to his car. Not one person stopped. Or looked. Or acknowledged him. I took him to his car and checked he was ok. He told me he had a fall and wasn’t sure how the air con worked in his car so he just didn’t use it. I sat with him, until his air con kicked in and heard him talk about the old frail body that he is in, that fails him now, every single day. When you see an elderly person walking down the street, searching in the supermarket or struggling to their car, ...
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My comment on your original post...11-4-05 K.Parish...
It seems he is on another hiatus...this time permanently I hope...his ravings have finally taken their toll on this blasphemous preacher of undecypherable claptrap...his age and obvious creeping dementia swallowing up his ability to write together with chardonay guzzling... it seems his cork has popped at last...see ya C
Reading the first para of his post, in it he states he feels he is going mad, his cognitive statement is one I shall believe