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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm 70 and I agree with your mom.

I run the dogs, muck out the stables, and ride my horse 6 days a week and I will do a swan dive off a cliff into the ocean before I'll go to a nursing home.[/quote]

Well, you’re not the one that will have to worry about their mom falling down the stairs and slowly dying while laying in their own feces.  And you won’t have to deal with the fact that no one noticed for says as the decay started to set in.  That is the special gift you will leave to your kids.  So kind![/quote]

Kids who want to put their parents in nursing homes are evil sadists. [/quote]

^And you are either a completely uneducated ignoramus or are a 12 year old.

Please tell me what you advice would be to an adult child when a parent has a massive stroke, is paralyzed, cannot eat on their own, needs to wear a diaper, and also needs two people in order to move or bathe them?  But their mind is completely fine and they are well aware of their condition.

Better yet, do this:  Pretend YOU are paralyzed for a weekend, are bedridden, and tie up the left side of your body so you can't use your arm or leg, be sure to tighten up that diaper, and also put an eyepatch over your left eye. Now let your DH, DW, partner, friend, whoever ... care for you for a week straight. Then come back on here and tell us how it went. [/quote]

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