General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: My experience with Universal health Care [View all]Diclotican
(5,095 posts)DiverDave
I know - pneumonia is a nasty illness to get - never been that sick as I was then... I really hope I will never experience that again...
I guess my foster father must have been of a whole different "stock" than I am - even if he had pneumonia he was always up 6 in the morning - making breakfast for us and get us to school... But then again, i suspect it for the most part to be pure stubbornness and nothing else that got him up in the morning some days.... He was one of the most stubborn men I have ever known in my life.. A great man who could be gentle as they come - but also stubborn as hell....
And it was the pneumonia that got him in the end - 83 year old 6 year ago... The last 5 year he lived he was sick and was declining in health steady but clearly - and in the end he was just an old man with dementia, a Shadow of himself...
Diclotican