On Dec 29, 7:58 pm, Larry wrote:
Frogwatch wrote in news:d4ef0f4a-2e15-4408-80bb-
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Now 90 yrs old, He'd still go sailing but he got Parkinsons last year.

My mother suffered with Parkinsons for 28 years. My condolences to you
both. The medical profession and pharmaceutical companies will eat you
alive to stop the shaking. One pill she took twice a day was over $58.

Although my father never did anything that most would say is "heroic",
I am very impressed by him. He raised 9 kids who all went to college
while his salary was never much. When I think of the wonderful things
they had us doing (mostly cheap camping and canoeing), I am extremely
thankful to them. My parents were not wimps, they would take all 9 of
us kids camping in any weather no matter how small we were. They had
us canoeing every isolated body of water in Florida and we all
routinely swam across some serious lakes, stuff I'd never want MY kids
to do, gators be damned.
After all us kids were grown, they had enough money to do cheap
adventure travel hiking up volcanoes in the Galapogos in their late
80s and other crazy stuff. At 82, my dad had his first set of hips
replaced and at 87 wore that set out so he had em replaced again. At
88, one day we went to see a cave entrance near the Chipola River near
Marianna, FL and they insisted they wanted to hike to the river in
spite of having to cross over a beaver dam with rushing water up to
our chests. With dad holding my shoulders we crossed with me thinking
"My sisters (I have 7 sisters) would kill me for allowing em to do
this" but you couldnt stop em.