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   Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:56:38 JST Charles ☭ H

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   Dad: They say I have to go to the hospital.

   Me: Yeah, because your mega doses of vitamin D massively fucked up your calcium levels.

   Dad: No it didn't.

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     Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:56:39 JST Charles ☭ H

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     American ambulances are quite different than British ones.

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     Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:56:40 JST Charles ☭ H

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     Me, leaning over the speakerphone: He says he wished you to tale him someplace to die.

     My brother: …

     My brother: My son's in the car. I'll see you tomorrow.

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     Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:56:41 JST Charles ☭ H

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     Dad: I want you to take me someplace to die!

     Brother: I just can't hear you. Is Charles there?

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     Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:56:43 JST Charles ☭ H

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     Dad, speaking louder: I want you to take me someplace to die.

     Brother: Sorry dad, can you repeat that again?

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     Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:56:44 JST Charles ☭ H

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     Dad: I don't belong here!

     Me: Where do you belong?

     Dad: Cupertino!

     Me: Is there somebody or something you want to see there?

     Dad: No.

     …

     Dad: [pulls out speaker phone, dials]

     My brother: Hi dad, how are you? Settling in OK?

     Dad: I'm going to ask you to do something hard. The hardest thing you've ever done. [Struggles to regain composure.]

     Brother: What's that?

     Dad, in an emotional whisper: I want you to take mW somewhere … to die.

     Brother: Sorry, I'm in the car, can you speak up?

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     Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:56:45 JST Charles ☭ H

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     Update: I have given wrong answers

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     Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:56:46 JST Charles ☭ H

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     Dad is moving into the care home today. My brother is taking him to the intake and I am "supervising" the movers. I know the answers to zero questions …

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     Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:56:47 JST Charles ☭ H

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     If your elderly friends or family have started taking supplements,it may be useful to figure out exactly what they're taking. A multivitamin plus another supplement might be too much of some vitamins or minerals.

     Also, some folks are taking too much of things on purpose and may need an intervention.

     In related news, my dads vitamin D results came back and I don't fucking understand how to read or interpret them. They're out of normal range so this means what exactly?

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     Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:56:48 JST Charles ☭ H

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     Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:56:49 JST Charles ☭ H

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     Dad, viewing the care home: I hate it. I'll be dead within 3 months.

     Me: They've got good food and physical therapy on site.

     Dad: it's awful.

     My spouse: Well, its your choice, but you can't move home, and [kid brother] is at work most days, so you'll be spending a lot of time with [extroverted home nurse that drove him crazy]. She works 12 hour shifts, I think.

     Dad: OK this place is fine.

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     Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:56:50 JST Charles ☭ H

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     Pfizer's vaccine is deadly, ergo
     Pfizer is killing people for profit with its this particular medicine, ergo
     It's likely Pfizer's medications are dangerous in general.

     One of the interventions from the cardiologist went badly and the cardiologist prescribers Pfizer medication, ergo
     The cardiologist is also willing to kill people for profit, ergo
     Stopping all Pfizer branded medications will remove danger, ergo
     Stopping blood thinners is going to help.

     Actual outcome: a series of strokes

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     Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:56:51 JST Charles ☭ H

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     My dad has been getting gradually stronger and more alert while I've been here and now understands what's going on and I should probably stop posting about it, but also he's suddenly very sad. 💔

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     Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:56:52 JST Charles ☭ H

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     One of the care homes was done up in the style of a boutique hotel. The lobby was perhaps the tackiest room I've ever been in. It was designed with many bright, conflicting patterns (which does hide stains at least) and had many very colourful vases and art-ish objects. Among them were sculptures of hashtags and at signs, thus gesturing to influenced culture.

     I am sceptical that anyone there is actually on any influencing sites. The symbols are not skeuomorphs. The floppy disk save icon refers backwards to past functionality. The hashtag symbols refer forwards, past the communal understandings. Its a boutique cargo cult.

     Anyway, that TNG episode where everyone gets caught in a pulp novel in a 1960s Vegas hotel seemed to be their main inspiration.

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     Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:56:53 JST Charles ☭ H

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     Dad is looking forward to lunch at the winning place. Thank Hashem. ❤

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     Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:56:54 JST Charles ☭ H

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     Thank you to whoever suggested asking if the staff had any family in the home. Great question. Very clarifying.

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     Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:56:55 JST Charles ☭ H

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     Every Texas care home needs a TB test, but my dad believes that people who test positive are kidnapped. He tested positive in 1948.

     There's a workaround for this one, at least.

     The covid theories turned out not to matter.

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     Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:56:56 JST Charles ☭ H

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     The wild ozone place is far and away the best option. Happy residents out and about, cleanliness generally good, a very engaged staff, a nice flat, nice grounds, a whoooole lot of Jesus, but he likes Jesus.

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     Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:56:57 JST Charles ☭ H

     Just to reiterate, the person running a care home for elderly people is against covid boosters because Texas.

     And my SIL thinks its a likely good fit for my dad, who is also against boosters because dementia and YouTube.

     (Also he was super frustrated this morning when I couldn't fill his request for a "lemon breakfast". My brother said he'd noticed a little bit of mild aphasia, so I guess that's getting worse.)