Okay - that works
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kyburgNew icon. Which I think is self-explanatory.
It's rather telling that Jim gets so sad every time he hears one of my Sims died of old age. He also really doesn't like the Romance Sim aspiration - or the contortions it puts normal life into. (I have a Romance Sim who has whoo-hoo'ed ten sims, has 15 kids and is total Aspiration City. Key? She never married any of the lovers, and never had two of them over at the same time. Oh, and she's in the Medical career path and doing well there too. So much for Romance Sims being total slackers. Of course I've used the Elixir of Life. She's a hoot to play.)
But life is change. You want to ignore that, it'll come around and smack you up the head with it.
I think the scariest part of dying is that I want to know I won't be bored with the next thing - sleeping all the time or lazing about doing nothing has never been my style. I work so I can play - so I work harder so I can play all the harder when I get a chance. Stop doing that? AUGH.
It's not Mom's passing that concerns me - that's a given, and she's given me (*counts on fingers*) over twenty-five years to get used to it. It's what happens between now and then that worries me.
I did two years of dialysis with Cliff. And ultimately, that's not what killed him - though that's what it says on the death certificate.
She can do it too - and really, lifestyle-wise, is better suited for it. So many things that concern them right now just drop off the radar when that happens, it's unreal.
They're restricting medications because of renal impact. Painkillers. You name it. That all goes away, *poof* when dialysis begins. It's no longer an issue. She can take something better for her arthritis again.
Diet and fluid intake get *heavily* scrutinized. 4 grams of protein a day. Period. Very few or no potatoes or bananas. Orange juice, bye-bye. Milk kind of drops off too because of the potassium and protein component, so you start using things like Rice Dream instead.
Buuut. All the candy you can eat, just about. They recommend it. You have to compensate the calorie intake due to the protein restriction.
It can be done.
I think, though, that because this is on the radar, she might feel she's failed somewhere along the way - the cancer took the kidney and bladder. And the other one was eighty years old, and has had so many insults to it in the year past, I'd quit too.
*sigh* Nothing stands still. Yesterday is not the same as today, even if it look, acts and sounds like it.
Jim and I are having our fourth wedding anniversary the 1st of November. I just blinked, I swear it.
It's rather telling that Jim gets so sad every time he hears one of my Sims died of old age. He also really doesn't like the Romance Sim aspiration - or the contortions it puts normal life into. (I have a Romance Sim who has whoo-hoo'ed ten sims, has 15 kids and is total Aspiration City. Key? She never married any of the lovers, and never had two of them over at the same time. Oh, and she's in the Medical career path and doing well there too. So much for Romance Sims being total slackers. Of course I've used the Elixir of Life. She's a hoot to play.)
But life is change. You want to ignore that, it'll come around and smack you up the head with it.
I think the scariest part of dying is that I want to know I won't be bored with the next thing - sleeping all the time or lazing about doing nothing has never been my style. I work so I can play - so I work harder so I can play all the harder when I get a chance. Stop doing that? AUGH.
It's not Mom's passing that concerns me - that's a given, and she's given me (*counts on fingers*) over twenty-five years to get used to it. It's what happens between now and then that worries me.
I did two years of dialysis with Cliff. And ultimately, that's not what killed him - though that's what it says on the death certificate.
She can do it too - and really, lifestyle-wise, is better suited for it. So many things that concern them right now just drop off the radar when that happens, it's unreal.
They're restricting medications because of renal impact. Painkillers. You name it. That all goes away, *poof* when dialysis begins. It's no longer an issue. She can take something better for her arthritis again.
Diet and fluid intake get *heavily* scrutinized. 4 grams of protein a day. Period. Very few or no potatoes or bananas. Orange juice, bye-bye. Milk kind of drops off too because of the potassium and protein component, so you start using things like Rice Dream instead.
Buuut. All the candy you can eat, just about. They recommend it. You have to compensate the calorie intake due to the protein restriction.
It can be done.
I think, though, that because this is on the radar, she might feel she's failed somewhere along the way - the cancer took the kidney and bladder. And the other one was eighty years old, and has had so many insults to it in the year past, I'd quit too.
*sigh* Nothing stands still. Yesterday is not the same as today, even if it look, acts and sounds like it.
Jim and I are having our fourth wedding anniversary the 1st of November. I just blinked, I swear it.
