What made you sad today?
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Bruce Gonsalves
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stui magpie
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Even that NRL star headline was completely wrong.David wrote:The question isn’t about whether the police knew, it’s about whether the media knew. For better or for worse, news outlets tend to rush to report as soon as they have any information, and (if they’re being responsible) early headlines will tend to err on the side of caution. I think very little of some of these outlets in general, but even I find it utterly implausible that they would have gone with the "NRL star dies" headline if it had already been conclusively established that he’d murdered his family.
He played in one trial game for Auckland I believe.
He's mad. He's bad. He's MaynHARD!
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The first time I read that, I missed the bit about the cat and read the vet had put your mum to sleep, which gave me a serious WTF moment.Morrigu wrote:Had to take my nearly 84 year old mum to the vet today to have her 19 year old Soxy cat put to sleep today - it was her time. It was a lovely peaceful way to leave this earth but still it’s very very hard
Sorry about the cat, 19 years is a bloody good innings.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
Mum did suggest it to her 
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Had to take Mum into care yesterday. A huge mix of sadness and relief. The last 18-14 months have been huge. Mrs WPT and I are both exhausted.
Unfortunately for her, she's in many respects very sharp, bright and together. If you had a coffee with her you woudn't know anything was up, two coffees and you'd start to think perhaps something's not right. Three coffees and you've had too many coffees.
Her language skills were always very good and she performs well on mini mental examinations. She knows how to fill in the gaps well so unassuming others don't have a clue including her GP & the services coming into her place including her cleaner and those who are meant to take her out / spend time.
The GP learnt through our intervention and she would become furious at me when I would point out the things she would gloss over when talking to professional service providers like her GP etc.
So I'm persona non grata as is Mrs WPT and brother who does nuffink and hasn't seen her in a year is either being brainwashed by me or is wonderson. Still I give it to him for his lack of assistance given he's retired and I still work full time (he does live 90 minutes aways and I live 5 mintes away)
Still seeing how things are going to pan out as there is a hellofalottodo to sort out placments, funding and coordination of this stuff during the coronavirus era.
As I was typing this Mum just called and was surprizingly settled: who knows what's going on! But that was a vast improvement from the "you'll pay a heavy price for this" that I copped when she was being taken to her temporary new place yesterday.
Not nice getting (very) old.
Hard as she is an impressive woman who:
Had 3 kids by 22
Managed to survive through WW2 and get through Nazi Poland to Stalin's Poland then the USSR in 1939 /1940 largely due to the efforts of her parents and my father (and avoid concentration camps where most of her & his family were murdered).
Do the equivalent of year 10 in a Displaced Person camp in Gemany post War
Migrate to Australia in 1950 with her family and My Dad, hatch 3 kids
Work at the Sydney Cooke nail factory not long after she first arrived.
Over time she:
*Did a secretarial / book keeping courses
*A beauty therapy course
*Ran a mini marathon in her 50's
*Go & do TOP English and Australian History
*Get into Uni in her late 50's early 60's while working FT
*Do a BA then honours
*Got into Law at Monsah and study law while working as a switchboard operator at a hospital for over 25 years
*Paint (she was very good at drawing and painting)
*Wrote a book on climate change (unpublished)
*Be involved in Rotary including in office bearing positions
*Teach and be a mentor at a local Community School for a short period (with kids who can't manage at mainstream schools)
* Visit a lot of elderly people, keeping them company (she was a very generous woman)
* Teach at the University of the 3rd Age
* Be a member of a political party in a local branch
* Climb / Trek Anapurna in Nepal in her late 60's ? early 70's
......amongst other things
Sad
Unfortunately for her, she's in many respects very sharp, bright and together. If you had a coffee with her you woudn't know anything was up, two coffees and you'd start to think perhaps something's not right. Three coffees and you've had too many coffees.
Her language skills were always very good and she performs well on mini mental examinations. She knows how to fill in the gaps well so unassuming others don't have a clue including her GP & the services coming into her place including her cleaner and those who are meant to take her out / spend time.
The GP learnt through our intervention and she would become furious at me when I would point out the things she would gloss over when talking to professional service providers like her GP etc.
So I'm persona non grata as is Mrs WPT and brother who does nuffink and hasn't seen her in a year is either being brainwashed by me or is wonderson. Still I give it to him for his lack of assistance given he's retired and I still work full time (he does live 90 minutes aways and I live 5 mintes away)
Still seeing how things are going to pan out as there is a hellofalottodo to sort out placments, funding and coordination of this stuff during the coronavirus era.
As I was typing this Mum just called and was surprizingly settled: who knows what's going on! But that was a vast improvement from the "you'll pay a heavy price for this" that I copped when she was being taken to her temporary new place yesterday.
Not nice getting (very) old.
Hard as she is an impressive woman who:
Had 3 kids by 22
Managed to survive through WW2 and get through Nazi Poland to Stalin's Poland then the USSR in 1939 /1940 largely due to the efforts of her parents and my father (and avoid concentration camps where most of her & his family were murdered).
Do the equivalent of year 10 in a Displaced Person camp in Gemany post War
Migrate to Australia in 1950 with her family and My Dad, hatch 3 kids
Work at the Sydney Cooke nail factory not long after she first arrived.
Over time she:
*Did a secretarial / book keeping courses
*A beauty therapy course
*Ran a mini marathon in her 50's
*Go & do TOP English and Australian History
*Get into Uni in her late 50's early 60's while working FT
*Do a BA then honours
*Got into Law at Monsah and study law while working as a switchboard operator at a hospital for over 25 years
*Paint (she was very good at drawing and painting)
*Wrote a book on climate change (unpublished)
*Be involved in Rotary including in office bearing positions
*Teach and be a mentor at a local Community School for a short period (with kids who can't manage at mainstream schools)
* Visit a lot of elderly people, keeping them company (she was a very generous woman)
* Teach at the University of the 3rd Age
* Be a member of a political party in a local branch
* Climb / Trek Anapurna in Nepal in her late 60's ? early 70's
......amongst other things
Sad
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think positive
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Virtual hugs mate, no it’s not easy, at least I have practice with the parent in question being an absolute prick to me! To be honest these last 2 weeks is the nicest I’ve ever seen him. Dad spent just over a month in Warrnambool base hospital, I managed to convince him to go into a nursing home and got him a place in the luxury joint where my FIL is. I think he finally realised he needs people. It’s been a long 2 weeks, your right the paperwork is a nightmare!
Cheers mate, don’t feel guilty though it’s hard not too, very lucky if a loved one remains healthy enough or lucid enough to stay home. For the rest of us the decision is out of our hands.
Well done to your mum, that’s a legendary life xx
Cheers mate, don’t feel guilty though it’s hard not too, very lucky if a loved one remains healthy enough or lucid enough to stay home. For the rest of us the decision is out of our hands.
Well done to your mum, that’s a legendary life xx
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You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!