My Dad is dying. I visited him, probably for the last time in his care home. He is 89 and has Alzheimer’s. It’s a relief, but also very sad. I shed a tear. The last time I visited him a week ago, he didn’t know who I was for the first time.
He had a great life, he built a public company, got an OBE from the queen and advised several prime ministers.
I haven’t posted this on other social platforms yet, not sure why. I think I feel freer to be myself here.
His name is Clifford Hardcastle OBE
This is him from a couple of years ago. https://image.nostr.build/8d403d1dd4a89e466533f659cc1116c55b5d33baa5bf0d5cb36087ab34dbc1f6.jpg
So sorry to read that. My Dad is on a similar path at 82. Remember all the good times you had together x
Mostly rowing with him in the board room as he tried to shut our website down in 1992 cos it was fucking up the magazine advertising leads 😂
Haha! Around that time I was stuck waiting for him in pub lock ins till the early hours, that’s journalists for you.
Thanks for sharing. Sorry to hear about this trying time...
I lost my father last year,just one week before my birthday and 1 month before going to Canada. There’s nothing I can say to help you to relief your pain. Losing a parent is like losing a part of you. It’s a hole that can’t be filled. I believe there’s a reason for everything and a right time for everything. So just trust that things happen the way they do for a reason.
Time will help you. Time is the best medicine for pain.
Take good care of yourself and show your father some love while he’s still alive,even though he doesn’t know who you are anymore.
🫂🙌🏼❤️
I held his hand and squeezed it, he squeezed back
Sending love and light to you. 🤍
He looks like a character in that picture
🫂
Sounds like he lived an interesting life on his own terms, we can't ask much more.
I have his genes which is probably why I’m a Bitcoiner
My grandpa passed away long time ago.
I was a child back then, I didn't know what a neurodegenerative disease was at that time. I just notice it on him first. (He strugled with Alzheimer too)
Things evolved very gradually. I have memories from when I was 7 telling him the same thing twice and noticeing the same reaction like it was the first time he heard me telling it.
For the last half a year of he's life he recognise only 2 things: my grandma and the house (only inside and the front of. eveything else was a complete mistery) He become so slow in moving and thinking that actually one second for him was like 1 minute "on planet earth" (the famous time meme).
I remember watching him and asking deep within myself " what a life is this ? is it still "living" at this point ?" (I was 13)
It's hard to let go, Take care 🫂🫂
He’s not been “present” for about 2 years. Before that it was very similar to your early experience.
Thank you 🙏
Sounds like he had a good life and raised a good man. Tough times 🫂
Praying for you both. Your Dad looks like an awesome person in that pic!
Thank you
Mike my Dad has stage 4 cancer right now so going through something somewhat similar. Be proud you have such an awesome Dad.
I'm sorry to hear that. Take care yourself.
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