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Unhappy Feeling
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I'm not a big one for introspection - but today I'm feeling decidedly maudlin.
Not for myself, but because I'm now exactly the same age that my Dad was when he died.
Comparing my happiness (and the future I hope to have in front of me) with his struggle with continual ill-health and then an early death has made me sad - he (and my Mum) must have felt cheated of the retirement they'd worked for.
I'll be fine tomorrow - but right now I'm stuck in a brown study ...
SDx
Not for myself, but because I'm now exactly the same age that my Dad was when he died.
Comparing my happiness (and the future I hope to have in front of me) with his struggle with continual ill-health and then an early death has made me sad - he (and my Mum) must have felt cheated of the retirement they'd worked for.
I'll be fine tomorrow - but right now I'm stuck in a brown study ...
SDx
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I'll add my 'alfpenny's worth..... Sqad, naomi, why does it matter and what's this really got to do with 'overall doom and gloom in AB'? In short, it doesn't. From Dave's perspective, he felt a little down, (not depressed), about a significant day in his life, a day that many here have gone through and felt the same way as Dave does/did - so in that alone, there's...
20:34 Tue 12th Feb 2019
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yikes there are some young parental deaths here ....
on a technical note - average your parents ages of death( two parents so you add the ages at death and halve it)
and you are more likely to live to that age than any other indicator
race - cholesterol value - sportiness - smoking - etc
Mine was 78 - and so I was a bit shocked to be told at 47 that I had a 50% chance of living until I was 50. ( ca colon first cancer )
on a technical note - average your parents ages of death( two parents so you add the ages at death and halve it)
and you are more likely to live to that age than any other indicator
race - cholesterol value - sportiness - smoking - etc
Mine was 78 - and so I was a bit shocked to be told at 47 that I had a 50% chance of living until I was 50. ( ca colon first cancer )
// No, there is nobody's death or anniversary that effects my psyche.//
er your own ?
o god we had one senior registrar Chris Frieth ( 1973) who walked into the Brom and said he was having a heart attack. Matron [they had them then] said get behind those curtain and take your clothes off !
and when they checked if he had or not - - - he was DEAD!
He was 45 and his parents had died in their forties
er your own ?
o god we had one senior registrar Chris Frieth ( 1973) who walked into the Brom and said he was having a heart attack. Matron [they had them then] said get behind those curtain and take your clothes off !
and when they checked if he had or not - - - he was DEAD!
He was 45 and his parents had died in their forties