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No, I'm not starting a competition for the most boring thread on Chat. ;) An email from mum might not be a thrill for many, but ...

My mum turned 80 two weekends ago. (I was off visiting her for a few days.) Oh, and her lymphoma, while not cured, is vastly improved.

We got her a laptop, a spiffy (used) IBM thinkpad. I thought she had the hang of it, but then there was radio silence. Turns out she was emailing all her friends and cousins before me. :(

So today she says:



me being dumb then clever

i figured it out and sent it to [her cousin] - also [her friend] but that did not seem to work - she must have changed her email address

at 2pm a social worker from housing is coming to see me - not by my invitation - seemingly when you turn gasp 80 you are
checked up on. i heard she visited ron down the hall who is 92 to ask if he had considered meals on wheels and was informed in
no uncertain terms that he was quite capable of cooking for himself thank you. i shall turn her out post haste. i think that is the
expression. i shall remind you that when i was in my final year of high school i won a prize for being the fastest typist in the class.

hopefully my typing speed will improve - or not who cares.

i am hungry so adios.

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And I've finally figured out what she sent to her cousin and friend -- it was the senior brain test that Pat posted here today, that I copied and sent her:

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=1225098

And in a separate email, my mum tells me she has passed her age-80 driver's licence renewal test.

Yay!

Now if I can just figure out who the stranger using my mum's email account is ... because that just does not sound like my mum ...

Well, good for her

Don't you just love the distrust the older gen have of social workers? Mum has one and I feel so sorry for her (the social worker) because mum is right rude to her, but you try telling her (Mum) that she is paid to think and of her well being you might as smack yourself in the face with a cast iron frying pan.... I wonder if its the norm to called an interfering busy body at every OAP home she calls at?

At last!

Can see where you get your indomitable spirit from!

Tell her "welcome to the wonderful world of the email!"


Cx. ;)))

You wonder, don't you, what kind of masochist would take on the job of poking about senior citizens' buildings?

I have an old client from Africa the same age as my mum. I thank my stars for the day when he got old enough that the busybody social worker and visiting nurse took him on though, because he had about worn me out over 25 years of being as bad as any teenager when it came to just screwing up everything.

Cynthia - that's the thing! My mum doesn't sound like me in real life. ;) Well, except for our voices. People who call her and happen to get me or my sister, if we're visiting, just start blithely yakking away, having no idea they're talking to somebody who has no idea who they are. ;)


And so say all of us, Foggy!

I had a social worker visiting for a while last year after my OH went into care. One of her first questions was, was I able to pay my bills. I told her that I had always handled the finances as I can spell and count! She visited about 5 or 6 times just to make sure I was coping ok. I did shed tears a few times, but that was 'normal'. In fact I still shed them at times. But she decided I was coping fine. I havent seen her this year. I wouldnt mind if she did come again, as I enjoyed having somebody to chat to, but I can do plenty of that on here if I want, although it is not quite the same thing as face to face. Anyway I didnt call her an interfering old (or should that be young) so and so.

Huia.

Aw Huia, my mum wouldn't do that either. ;)

There are huge differences among people at that age -- my mum was almost embarrassed about her 80th birthday, because there are people that age-ish in her building who are just so much ... older, and most people's reaction to her news was: you're *how* old???

When my mum and dad separated (the first time ...) when they were in their 60s, I recommended my mum join a group for recently separated women, and she did, and she appreciated the experience a lot. (I think she was better prepared for widowhood than many are, horrible thought though that is.) The way she tells the story, though, is that I told her to get a life, so she did. ;)

She had visiting nurses a lot last year while having chemo and radiation, so she knows the drill.

At least I'm pretty sure she won't be like her mother was -- telling the visiting housekeeper and anybody who'd listen that her family didn't visit!

KEEP THE STRANGER USING THE EMAIL
SHE SEEMS A GREAT LADY
BE PROUD OUR JANEY'S MUM


NOW HOW DO WE GET HER ON GR








M

Now, that WOULD be interesting! Janey and her mum on here. Methinks there could be fun and games with that one....lol

Cx

Oh yeah right, Dizzi.

You just want my mum to come on and tell me to behave. ;)

Hey Cynthia, I told you I'd use your park-bench line, and I did. ;)

It seemed like a good cheerer-upper for somebody talking about younger days sleeping in bus stations. What the heck, here it is again.



To get to my mum's 80th last week, I had to take a 5-hour bus ride to one terminus then get to another terminus not too far away and wait three hours for the next bus. From 5 a.m. to 8 a.m. on a Saturday. Dead tired, and nothing to do but sit and wait. And the outdoor benches were the hardest things I had ever sat on in my life. With dividers so you couldn't loll, let alone lie down. Luckily, I had my folded-up towel to sit on, and I actually dozed for a half hour.

So I was telling one of the other TTF regulars here about that tedious and sore-bum experience, and said I swore the bench was made of petrified oak. And she said:

Of course it was petrified -- you were sitting on it!


hahaha snork.

Oh heavens I am sure Janey would just love to have her mum monitoring and censoring all her posts in this here environment.

Hmm on second thoughts might be interesting. Edit Ha Cynthia you beat me to it. Great minds thinking.............

Just thank your lucky stars you have a Mum, and yes I know you do. Both my parents passed away over twenty years ago. Hmm seems to run in the family.

My mum is 76 and she's got more energy than me. I've been trying to visit her all week and she's been out. I've made an "appointment" to visit today (Thurs). Next week she's going on a coach trip to Queensland on her own. I'm not complaining because it took awhile after dad passed away to get her out and about. On a computer though? I don't think so:-))

Sue xx

I will not/cannot say anything much about my mum on here. She may be a member (once was) - certainly knows about the site.
My mum is 80 later this month.
She was born with a heart defect - certainly shouldn't live beyond 'X' age - when she did, was told never to have children.
4 children, 6 grandchildren and (at the time 1 g grandchild ) later, aged 76 she complains of feeling 'puffed out'. 'What have you been doing mum?' I ask ' Laying concrete' is the reply!
Mum had an operation 3 years ago to mend the faulty valve in her heart that she was born with - only for them to find TWO faulty valves. We were told she would be in intensive care for a week - wrong! She was out within 2 days!
They only fixed one valve (which p*sses mum off)
4 children, 6 grandchildren and 4 g grandchildren later - we're stil waiting for mum to be able to sell her house and come back to England!

We're a hardy lot - my gran was riding a bike until she was 86 - when council workers sent to 'improve' her council bungalow managed to demolish her bike! She died in 2003 aged 99 - and in my mind, would have lived a lot longer had her bike not been demolished - and if I'd known then what I know now about care homes!

Hi Janey

I love the sound of your mum. Only people of a certain age would mutter " I shall turn her out post haste"!

Sue x

HE HEE HEEE

AS IF YOUR MUM COULD

I JUST WANT THE IMBBARASING BITS LOL

It's that "I shall turn her out post haste" that was one of the odd bits. She might say that out loud, but it would sound like a kid saying it. Purposely pompous. ;)

Maggie, where had your mum taken herself at that age?

My two grandmothers lived into their 90s, on my mum's side to 94 and a half, and on my dad's side, as she would have put it, in her 99th year.

Unfortunately, on my dad's side, I got his father's genes, I think. All the cardiovascular things that can go wrong.

But on my mum's father's side is old weird Ernest Hill/Monck, who survived 5 years in the imperial wars in India in the 1870s and lived another 60+ years ... just not to tell about it, blast his eyes. ;)

Oh, and that's how I was able to tell my mum that her grx2 grandmother (Ernest's father's mother) was a Hoar. Nyuk nyuk. ... Except apparently it's pronounced Oar ...

SueMaid: just get her a laptop and see what happens. Then you too can contemplate having your old mum looking over your shoulder here.

I have this scenario in my head should Janey's mum join us on here.


JaneyC : Mum, have you noticed my latest piece of brilliance on the xxxxxxx thread?

Mum : Yes dear, I have. Actually, I got there before you but didn't want to spoil your fun. By the way, remember to wash your hands after stroking those feral cats of yours.

JaneyC : gulp.



Cx. :)))

PMSL, Cynthia. Doesn't bear thinking about,

Janey - I can't bear the thought of my mum looking over my shoulder on here. I would be grounded for life;-))

When my son was deployed to East Timor he set up a Facebook account and invited me onto his friend's list. This was an easy way to share news and photos. I'm still on his list and I have to say there are times I wish I wasn't. But he lives miles away so how else would I keep an eye on him;-))

Sue xx

WHAY OH

MEMO TO MYSELF
FIND ALL MUMS ,,,USEAGE UNTHINKABLE
OH JOY SWEET JOY

EVIL GIGGLE