Hey Mex, we’re apparently neighbours. I’ve had some issues with depression, which has probably built up over some years but become more problematic in recent years as I struggle to get any work done now on some days. Started seeing a psychologist this year subsidised under GPs mental health plan. I think it’s helping, but need to see him at least a couple more times yet for that to become clearer. Anyway, if you want to talk in person to some random middle-aged bloke locally then let me know.
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Thank you very much.
It’s always good to know there are people around who are willing to step in.
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Unfortunately I’m in Vic mate, but you’d be surprised what a food intolerance could do to your health and wellbeing, it may be worth a shot talking to someone reputable in your area.
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Appreciate your advice. Thank you
We often forget to care for ourselves when caring for loved ones. Enjoy the break.
Wishing the best for your family.
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Thanks HG.
How are you doing with health and work?
Did you have to retire, or did you find some middle ground?
Hi Glu.
Found middle ground. Working and the medication I’m on is working well to the extent possible. It’s a stop gap, but you take what you can.
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Hope you’re okay. Feel free to chat with any of us.
We’re all important. No matter how we feel at times.
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Tough day here. Grampa has moved to full time aged care. Problem is, with his alzeimers he doesn’t remember what happened five minutes ago. So he keeps asking when he will go home not realising. So we explain and he forgets. We walk outside the room down the corridor then is surprised when we get back that he has a room.
Not sure how you can participate in anything when you can’t remember why or where you are.
His long term memory is working fine. We watching old videos of his old home Macau. Problem is he tells me the same information over and over.
Funny in a way that my dad didn’t get another thirty years but now my grandpa doesn’t remember anything recent. He does ask where dad is. I don’t tell him.
Let’s see how the staff go. I’m surprised how hands off its been on day one.
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I reckon anyone who talks about their mental health here is brave as ■■■■ and I’m proud of them and they should never feel like they shouldn’t vent or ask for help.
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My Grandpa got to the point that he was living 70 years prior. My Dad was his best friend from childhood. When I went to visit, he’d ask me if I’d tied up the horses properly. Are they watered? He was an old blacksmith and motor mechanic who had retained his technical skills. Before he went into care, he spent lots of time turning up brass hose connectors and fittings on the lathe for no apparent reason. After he went into the home, he engineered several escape attempts, disassembling the electric mag locks on the main door and took off down the street. The locksmith who was called to put it back together was astonished.
We showed him a photo of Gran, who at that time was dying in palliative care.
“Who’s that?”
“That’s…that’s Grandma, your wife.”
"I don’t think so! She’s old! " .
The pain was, and remains , real. But so too were the many moments of humour.
So many other things to be said.I miss him like you wouldn’t believe. As he used to be, and as he finished.
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Going through changes, Girl I have helped raised for 6 years has just moved out with her mum, went around tonight and helped set up there new house WIFI TV etc, daughter said I want to come back home with you 
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You must have done a great job. Well done.
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When my Mums dementia got bad enough for her to need to go into a care centre, our family went through lots of trauma and grief, and it was the support groups that got us through it.
I remember asking carers how they coped working with dementia patients every day, and one smiled and said that every morning she took a few for a walk to the rose garden, and the delight that these people showed when they had seen and smelled roses again for the “first time” made her heart soar.
Gave me a different perspective.
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Sorry I couldn’t supply the pizza 
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I hope, obviously, that somebody gets something out of the yellow day
I’ve only ever seen it as a corporate smokescreen to abrogate any real action or responsibility.
Blitz has been fantastic for me. I not sure how to express how much blitzers in this thread has helped me throughout the last few years.
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Sounds like you are in a better place now, for that much, l am glad.
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