[Rovernet] Geezers...

[Glen R. Wilson]

My mom will be 93 this month and is otherwise quite healthy, but has dementia. A very difficult situation which in her case (all are different) she doesn't especially "suffer" because in her condition she does not feel the loss, but it is extremely stressful for one of my sisters who has insisted on being her live in caregiver with little outside assistance and at a great distance from other family. Big contrast between my mom's situation and that of another dear friend who is 90, full of life and energy, and now dealing with Covid19 she contracted in-house during hip surgery rehab. As bad as this is for us "junior geezers" it is heartbreaking to be seeing people in their 90s having to live in this Covid world perhaps in their final days, even when healthy, due to the isolation and well considered restrictions.


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On Dec 5, 2020, 11:28 AM, at 11:28 AM, Vern Inkspot via Rovernet <rovernet at rovernet.org> wrote:
>Reading between the lines of the sale of Kent’s collection of cars &
>parts, I think Kent has developed one of the dementias. He hasn’t been
>mentioned in the past tense, but everything involved with the sale was
>by “Kent’s family”.
>
>A cruel fate if it’s true.
>
>Yours
>Vern
>
>> On Dec 4, 2020, at 10:45 AM, Franc Buxton via Rovernet
><rovernet at rovernet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On 04/12/2020 17:41, Dermot Harvey via Rovernet wrote:
>>> Hi Franc and Hi Glen!
>>> Seems to be old geezer day here!  Let us remember Charlie Stutt
>while we are reminiscing- a true Rover  gentleman.
>>> Franc, I still have my “GB specced” 3500SD1NADA, though alas the 
>ECU I got from you has become unreliable in its old age. I bought
>another at a SD1 club swap meet but that didn’t work! So the car
>soldiers on with a tepid NADA ECU. Now if only I can fix the dreaded
>rear door lock…..
>>    Hi Dermot, good to hear from you too! I'm afraid I don't remember
>Charlie...
>> 
>>    I had begun to get the feeling that Kent is no longer with us, but
>like Glen I didn't want to retire him prematurely. I must have missed
>any report of this that might have been on here. Assuming that is the
>truth, he will be sorely missed. Come to think of it, if he has merely
>departed from this list as opposed to from life itself he will be
>missed anyway!
>> 
>>    Dermot, I was clearing out the other day and I came across a
>still-sealed UK spec ECU. Didn't check whether it was SD1 or RR Classic
>and I have no idea whether it works, or why I have had it in my
>possession for at least fifteen years, but I didn't dispose of it, so
>if you're ever over here give me a call!
>> 
>>    Keep safe everyone.
>> 
>>    Cheers,
>>       Franc.
>> 
>>    (Interestingly, my spellchecker has just tried to replace
>"Rovernet" with "Ravernet". Does it know something I don't? 😂 )
>> -- 
>> Franc Buxton
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