Posted by JD Seller on August 30, 2015 at 09:50:19 from (208.126.198.123):
In Reply to: Re: Dad is on the mend posted by Banditfarmer on August 30, 2015 at 09:18:13:
Bandit I know what your going through is not easy. I do NOT have first hand experience with it with my Father. The reason being I never really liked him to start with so telling him NO is not hard. LOL Now when my Mother gets to this stage it will be hard as I have a lot of respect for her. She and my Father are 81. She is fine on her own and my Father is in assisted living right now. He has had mini strokes and can't be on his own.
I do not know if you can set down an talk to your Father like an equal and get him to realize he needs to limit what he does at least for now. Many older fellows are blind to the limitations of their age/condition and refuse to not over do it. If he can't limit himself you and your Mother will have to do it for him. This I have experience in with my Grand Mother. She refused to quit driving even when she could not see twenty feet from herself. So I disabled the car first and then later just removed it totally. Not fun but better than her killing herself or even worse some one else.
I know you run older equipment and that limits what you can do to make them more handicapped friendly. A hydrostatic combine really does not make you use your feet much at all. My one neighbor ran the combine for years with his boys lifting him up to the platform with a loader each morning and getting him down in the afternoon. He ran the combine when he could barely walk but his upper body was fine. So maybe try to update to some thing that your Father can use.
An example would be automatic hitches. When my Grad Father was fighting cancer he would haul loads in form the field with the cab tractor. He never even had to get down as with the auto hitches he could hook and unhook form the cab. My Mother would open the wagon doors for him at the bin. She always watched the dryer anyways. Yes it was $3000 worth of hitches but he helped harvest two more years that way.
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