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She smoked most of her life. She had a heart attack years ago though, trying to think when that was, over a decade now. After that she never picked up a cigarette, didn't even having a 'last one' knowing that's what it would be. My Grandpa is not a smoker, so no concerns that way.

The thing I've heard of is she doesn't want to have to be connected to a hose. Just the hindrance of it. I understand that, no one wants to be connected for that long to something if not necessary. I also have a pretty good idea of what COPD feels like and on times when I have felt that fatigue and breathlessness, a hose is way less restricting.

I don't really know more than what I have said. They currently have no home care but do have relatives coming over to shovel snow & mow the grass.
 
Pinga said:
@ChemGal -- just some quick info that i googled
Cambridge has some of the hardest water in all of Canada. The city ranges between 20 and 32 grains per gallon (gpg) or 342 and 548 parts per million (ppm). The water hardness average across Canada is only 10.5 gpg. That means that Cambridge's water is about 2 to 3 times harder than the Canadian average!Nov 5, 2017

In Calgary, Red Deer and Edmonton water hardness averages 12 to 16 grains per gallon.​
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I've never looked it up, I've just always heard that Calgary is bad (although for city-water, not something like well-water) and things do tend to scale there more quickly. I know here scale doesn't happen quite so much, although the individual ions make a difference. Winnipeg's water definitely feels very different, especially for washing hair, although doesn't have that gross slimy feel that water softeners have.
 
In high harness areas ... total softness of the water is not achieved the way my work would expect it in industrial situations.

Hardness-free water is not necessary ... just reduced to acceptable concentrations for washing, etc. Hardness free water has all kinds of implications with physical health and emotional-mental stability as minerals play a great part in balance of the synaptic gaps in neural cells ... little area of concern to many people that have no such interest in wee things! KInda scientific thing in a religious surrounding ... where only firm laws are considered applicable ...

Some hidden laws should be part of our inquisition ... many would pass on that interest ... allowing those that question must be crazy ... imagine gravitas ...
 
Halifax used to have unnaturally soft Water until Pockwok came along ... then hardness (and other stuff was added) to remove iron, manganese and other troublesome elements in excess!

This is beyond average intellects ... a kind of alien interest!
 
Oh my goodness ... extraordinarily wonderful weather here today. In the high 20s, with some humidity too. It was foggy this morning over the lake, when I went out with my Nordic Pole Walkers group - it was a lovely route to enjoy the sunshine. This afternoon I spent some time in the garden, beginning to do some cutting back of perennials - my least favourite thing to do. I take a moment to thank them all for their beauty and hard work done and wish them a good sleep over the winter. Then I went to see my neighbour's new puppy - a Havanese - SO cute! Just started the housebreaking, so tomorrow I have to go over to take it outside as 'mom' will be at an appointment - lucky me!! Tomorrow's weather is to be much the same ... and then back to the regular autumn routine.
 
Carolla said:
Oh my goodness ... extraordinarily wonderful weather here today. In the high 20s, with some humidity too.
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Yeah, as I commented over in LP, I was out cutting the grass in shorts yesterday. Felt more like Labour Day than Thanksgiving.
 
Hope you all are enjoying your warm weather. We have snow and ice -the sky was bright blue though, so it looked nice. If we hadn't been worried about falling we would have gone out for a walk.
 
I called my Grandma today. Took me asking 3 times before I could actually get her to take the phone (and I think even then my Grandpa stuck it in her hand, she didn't voluntarily take it from him). She heard at least half of what I said and my Grandpa probably confirmed the rest after the phone call. They had a visit from some relatives a few days ago and it turns out she uses oxygen (although just at night). She is also a nurse, so it's someone person to call up (or well for my Grandpa to do so) if there are questions and they aren't comfortable asking the rep. So I think hearing from both of us helped. I'm sure there will be lots of complaints that I will hear of 2nd hand though!
 
I called my parents as they moved on the 10th. They have no phone as expected but Mom was going to keep her cell phone on. Tried 4 times to reach them. 3x "Customer is unavailable" meaning her phone was off. 4th time phone rang but was not answered. Mom does not have voicemail nor does she text.

5th time got through but mom couldn't hear. I don't have a landline just my cell so problem was at her end. She does wear hearing aids. It was frustating call. I'd say something and she would guess at her reply. (this was Fri.) Her phone should be up and working Tues.
 
@Tabitha Do any of us live close enough, or do you have friends that you can call to go over in that situation.
(I regularly would get calls from people who couldn't reach my Dad, as he had knocked the phone off the hook, and I would go over, or "phone a friend"
 
Not at the moment.(actually I do have their minister's e-mail We were both stewards at GC43)

I was able to hear enough that they are ok. Mom said the right things even if she couldn't hear my responses. Mom drives and is cognitively fine.

Usually my sister is there-same town-but is away travelling right now. Move was originally booked for Nov. but got moved up.

I am not concerned about them I just miss being able to talk. Move happened, house sale happened, the dust is settling, they will be fine.
 
My son got a text from his dad that he is giving up his appartment ( in Banff) and moving to the Philippines, but possibly going to LA before in December. He is sending five boxes to the Philippines. He has been talking about doing this for two years. We don’t have much information. There is some Philippina who he might have met when on vacation two years ago to whm he has sent money before for a “;food truck business”- but this somehow didn’t work out. ThePhillipina suddenly changed her last name to his last name on her facebook page a few months ago.
My ex is going to be 61. The year before vacationing in the Phillipines, he was in Italy and came back and said he was going to move to Italy. It always were just ideas. Now he is actually giving up his appartment.
My son said he had talked about “ becoming a paparazzi” to make money- that’s where the LA destination might come from.

My ex always needed people to help him, when we immigrated to Canada, I was the one who did all the paperwork, or it wouldn’t have happened.
I am worried he might now have a more serious condition with regards to mental health, or he is just being taken advantage of by someone who thinks he might be a sugar daddy. He can’t plan, so he doesn’t have a lot of money, so the sugar daddy thing will not work out.
I am not sure what to tell my son. I said he should call him and ask him all those open questions, like what he is going to live on, an address, health insurance, visa status, how he will keep contact with him.
I wonder, what my son could do if it sounds he is really having serious delusions ( which he never had before, he only had stupid ideas). But the paparazzi idea sounds so far off, that I wonder if there is something more going on.....
 
Sounds difficult mrs.anteater. Hard to be at a distance & not have much influence, but a simmering sense of responsibility. Is your son worried?
 
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