Taking time to see my Dad

I took some time to visit my Dad in NC. He is 90 years old next week and lives in a retirement center.  He looks good but continues to have an issue with a hernia.  Not being a doctor, I don't know what the issue is. He says its a hernia, but before it was a blockage and I talked him into a colonoskopy. There was nothing to show from that procedure. So he said it was a hernia, he is also using a carther which can be changed every couple of weeks.

My Dad has been a frustrated writer for most of his life.  He is an Amateur Radio operator or HAM and was a pilot, flying Piper Cubs from the factory to the buyers. This he did prior to WWII.  He met my mother at Piper.
Each time I visit the conversation is the same. The people living there are all Baptists, Southerners and therefore don't like him. He's from the North. He thinks they are all Zionists or at least sympathizers with them and doesn't get much traction with the other men regarding his beliefs about the Jews.  He believes they are destroying the country.  I try to stay off the subject as he really like to preach it.

The facility where he is has a nice work out area, Dad doesn't use it.  Pretty grounds, he won't walk.  The food is good, the rooms are cleaned weekly and they have bus service to the local stores.  When he meets with doctors, they don't want to treat him because he is 90 and they don't want to take on any more Medicare patients. That part is true and I believe a direct response by the medical field to the Obama health care initiatives.  I don't make suggestions on how he can handle the problems as he can argue against any of them. So   he continues to lie in bed most days dealing with a blockage or hernia, which ever comes first.

I love my Dad and think he is one of the few honest men I have met in the world. He is a smart man. A teacher and self taught in many areas, including piano.   He has always had his opinions and likes to share them, expecting the world to follow them. He has no solutions to problems but can point them out and believes his ideas are the best and anyone who can't see that is just ignorant.  Se la vie!

Do you have a parent still living?  Are they in their 80's and 90's?  What are they like?

Back home today and looking again for jobs.  I started a post to see if other are interested in a Job Network.

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