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A Short Story About Long Term Care Posted: 07 May 2012 04:12 AM PDT The real BBUS post can be found here… A Short Story About Long Term Care by Joe Hauckes © Baby Boomers U. S. (The Blog) . Not on Senior Zen! A few  years ago, December 19, 2006  to be exact, my Mom died. Then my Pop died 13 weeks to the day after Mom on a Tuesday in March. The weird part is that Pop was born on December 25, 1920  and Mom was born on March 23 a few years later, she would never admit to what year exactly. ( More weird, all three boys in the family were born in March and the only girl was born in December.) Anyway, when Mom died, it was kind of sudden. We had no idea that anything was wrong . She fell asleep in her lounge chair, as was the norm, and in the morning she was gone. My little sis, Karen  and I handled things so that Pop could grieve without having to deal with  all of the funeral arrangements etc. I didn’t mention it before, but I had to tell Pop that Mom died while he was in the hospital dealing with pneumonia. Not a good thing to tell your old man when he’s not doing too well himself, let me tell ya. Afer we buried Mom, we brought Pop home and he seemed to be doing fairly well. Or so we thought. Karen and I went home and ‘lil sis stayed on helping Pop. Sis dealt with Pop along with working a full time job and raising her own daughter as long as possible. When it got to be too much for her to deal with every day,  seven days a week, she called me to help her out. I went down to the house to help out. Since I work mostly online and do remote computer consulting, it was not taking away from my job too much as long as I had an internet connection. Where is all this leading you may ask. We had to take Pop to the bathroom, help him get dressed, stand behind him going up and down the steps… it even got to the point of having to change his diaper. Pop only lived 13 weeks after Mom died, but imagine if he had lived 13 more years. We weren’t prepared for any of this. Care for the elderly is a lot of work and should be done by professionals. We can provide all the Love they need, but leave the in home care to the people who know how to deal with it. I think it is time for us to stop procrastinating and start preparing so that our kids don’t have to worry about us. Let them take care of the grandkids, not us. This is a sponsored post. © Baby Boomers US Blog If you are reading this anywhere other than our RSS Feed Please notify us at blog.boomersus@gmail.com If you are reading this on Senior-Zen: It is STOLEN CONTENT from Baby Boomers US You may also want to join the Baby Boomers US Forum for conversations by Baby Boomers about topics important to Baby Boomers!

Monday Musings for Baby Boomers – Sauerkraut Posted: 07 May 2012 03:52 AM PDT The real BBUS post can be found here… Monday Musings for Baby Boomers – Sauerkraut by Joe Hauckes © Baby Boomers U. S. (The Blog) . Not on Senior Zen! Smile! Monday has always been a little bit of a let down, what with it being the beginning of the work week and all. So to start things out on a bright note for the week, I bring you the… Baby Boomers Monday Musings. Sauerkraut A doctor started an affair with his nurse. Shortly after this started, she announced that she was pregnant. Not wanting his wife to find out, he gave her a large amount on money and asked her to go out of the country, to Germany, to wait out her pregnancy and have the baby over there. “But, how will you know when our baby is born?” she asked. “Well, he said, “after you’ve had the baby, just send me a post card and write ‘sauerkraut’ on the back.” Not knowing what else to do, she took the money and went off to Germany. Six months went by. Then one day the doctor’s wife called him at the office. “Dear, you received a very strange post card in the mail today,” she explained. “I don’t understand what it means!” “Just wait till I get home and I’ll read it,” he replied. Later that evening, the doctor came home and read his post card which read: “SAUERKRAUT, SAUERKRAUT, SAUERKRAUT, TWO WITH WIENERS, ONE WITHOUT!!!” Hope that put a little smile on your face and Keep On Smilin’ © Baby Boomers US Blog If you are reading this anywhere other than our RSS Feed Please notify us at blog.boomersus@gmail.com If you are reading this on Senior-Zen: It is STOLEN CONTENT from Baby Boomers US You may also want to join the Baby Boomers US Forum for conversations by Baby Boomers about topics important to Baby Boomers!

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