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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Their world becomes smaller as they age and they do start to get a little self centered. There are adult children who place their own lives on hold to fret over and tend to their elderly parents. They shuttle them from doctor to doctor, taking notes, making sure they have the best tests, screenings, shots, hospital rooms…. They are on top of their meds, they know all of their senior parent’s friends and even go out to lunch with them and have all of their phone numbers and email addresses. It’s like what a mommy does for her preschool child. I’m 60 and I don’t even do that for myself. I can’t do that for anyone else and if the parent who raised me doesn’t get that well..that probably means that the parent has unrealistic expectations of me and needs to find someone who will do a better job or they simply need to adjust their expectations a bit. [/quote] I think my problem is that I take Dad’s words too seriously -OP[/quote]
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