[AshWhite]

Those of us who are of at least reasonable mental & physical condition really struggle to imagine what it is like to be truly helpless.

I'm not sure about that, Jim - plenty on here have seen you after 3 pints..

[The Great One]

Hats off to you Doug - I think you're wrong though.... not everyone would do the same, sadly.

Having had an elderly Grandmother who needed a fair bit of TLC in the last part of her life, I know first hand how challenging it can be to put everything else aside and just help someone no matter how unpleasant or inconvenient to us it might be.

She had a bungalow with integral garage, where the boiler was situated... an ideal free heated store room for kit & chemicals!  This meant I was round there a lot, and quite a few times was the first family member available for emergencies, which she had a a number of!

Bless her, she fell and hit her head one day and the first thing she did was grab a newspaper to stop her Axminster carpet getting bloodied because I'd only cleaned it a couple of weeks previous!!

Those of us who are of at least reasonable mental & physical condition really struggle to imagine what it is like to be truly helpless.

Sadly a lot of us will probably end up the same way, not being able to do things for ourselves, things we just take for granted now, hard to imagine sometimes 

Martin

[Jim_77]

Ash   It takes at least 5 pints!!

[wynne jones]

We look at some other societies and consider them backward yet these are usually the ones that consider caring for their extended family a duty. We bung them in care homes and visit when I schedules allow. (well some do anyway)