OT: Roo's Miracle...A TPB's Community Thread Of Unity and Support

[FtheTurds]

Yesterday was my 89TH birthday. I still can't believe I'm this old. I had a really nice day. My friends and family brought me my favorite goodies. There's one good thing about having Cancer, you get so skinny that people bring you candy, cake, ice cream, pie and all kinds of goodies.

Happy Belated Birthday my Brother!!!

[Fleet 1]

Happy Birthday Roo. Aloha

[colorado]

Happy birthday Roo. 89 years young as my father would say...

[Lone Bolt]

Sheesh...Im turning 53 on Friday...I feel like the baby of the group...like the "surprise child" a couple has, late in life, who's siblings are all 10, 15, even 20 years older, lol...

[sonorajim]

I was in line to get labs, pre Dr appt and saw a lady with 7 little blond girls ages 12 to 1 at the counter. She was laughing and joking with the receptionist. There was a 14yo at home and another in her belly, due 3-4 wks she said. I mention this because I was amazed at the sight and how neat and orderly the girls were. Mom and the 12 yo held babies. Mom may have been 40 + but didn't look worse for wear. After all the unruly kids at Walmart just wow! What a mom!.
I'm 79 and can't recall a similar sight.

[Bolts4ever213]

Happy birthday Roo. Mine was on the 4th, made it to 53.

Told a co worker last night, I don’t want to crawl the final laps of my life. That’s not living. At least you have this thread. Always nice to see a post from you.

[chargeroo]

It's different and a little hard. I'm 70 and have lost several friends also. My mom is 89 and I visited her today in the home. She has lost most of her friends, but she doesn't remember them. She remembers who I am but does not remember what she had for lunch. Makes up stories about some party she is supposed to go to or that her mom came to see her (not sure she didn't because its real to her). We don't tell her when one of her close friends dies because we see no reason to. She will forget in ten minutes. Her mind and body are both going down hill but the mind is going faster. It's sad. Maybe remembering your friends and the memory brings tears is not such a bad thing.

Happy birthday again Roo.

Thanks for this post. You made me realize that I should be happy that my mind is still working pretty well. I do find that I forget things that just happened but I can tell you what it was like in the USA during WW2.

Thanks to everyone for the good wishes.

[dmac_bolt]

I was in line to get labs, pre Dr appt and saw a lady with 7 little blond girls ages 12 to 1 at the counter. She was laughing and joking with the receptionist. There was a 14yo at home and another in her belly, due 3-4 wks she said. I mention this because I was amazed at the sight and how neat and orderly the girls were. Mom and the 12 yo held babies. Mom may have been 40 + but didn't look worse for wear. After all the unruly kids at Walmart just wow! What a mom!.
I'm 79 and can't recall a similar sight.

Thats impressive on several levels, although I’m quite unsure on the wisdom. To each …

I remember when my kids were 2, and they were “perfect” and we’d look at other parents with disrupting misbehaving kids with a pious “pffft” tut-tut. We actually thought we were the shit as parents. We were fucking morons. It turned out our kids saved their terrible 2s for 3 and we sucked as bad as every other parent lol.

[wu-dai clan]

Thanks for this post. You made me realize that I should be happy that my mind is still working pretty well. I do find that I forget things that just happened but I can tell you what it was like in the USA during WW2.

Thanks to everyone for the good wishes.

My late oldest sister used to tell me stories about strict blackouts in San Diego.

[pigskin]

A little late, but Happy Birthday Roo, you are an inspiration to all of us.

[La Costa Boy]

My late oldest sister used to tell me stories about strict blackouts in San Diego.

Somewhere I have a ration coupon book that my mother had saved. Amazing how the country won 2 wars in about 44 months.

[Riverwalk]

Happy birthday Roo. Mine was on the 4th, made it to 53.

Told a co worker last night, I don’t want to crawl the final laps of my life. That’s not living. At least you have this thread. Always nice to see a post from you.

Creative minds always have a reason to live. See Stephen Hawkins.

I can’t physically do what I could do decades ago but my life is more interesting. It’s called maturing and appreciating what you have versus envying what you don’t.

I can see insufferable pain as being intolerable but simply physical limitations?? No way.