Re: Monday Night Dinner? 6/02/2025

On 6/4/2025 10:00 AM, flood of sins wrote:

On 2025-06-04, Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com> wrote:
 

Every time I go there, I hope to find she's died in her sleep.

 My father passed last october, my mom is still heavily grieving.
She acts like she's reverted from age 86 to age 6 and has
reclused herself to the house. Her health is good for her age
but she hasn't been eating well and is losing weight. My son got
a new job in Buffalo and is going to move in with her at the end
of the month. If she makes it that long. :/ She doesn't want to
go into assisted living, wants to stay in the house my parents
had built in 1962. They met when she was 16 and got married at
18. Never had a chance to do some life on her own and it shows.
A lot! She's totally lost without my father. If she doesn't start
living life again soon after my son moves in, as harsh as it sounds,
the best thing for her would be to join my father in the
mausoleum.
 

I'm sorry for the loss of your father.  I had a similar situation.  Not long after my father died my mother just sort of gave up.  She lost weight even though she already only weighed about 98 lbs soaking wet.  I could only get her to eat a few things, mostly eggs & toast and Stouffer's spinach souffle.  I could not entice her to get out of bed and sit and talk or watch TV with me.  Her doctor diagnosed depression and prescribed something but it didn't help.  She died 9 months after he did.
Jill