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How much do you know about your parent's life around the age you are now? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Besides that my parents lived a world apart around the age I am now, I honestly don't know what their life was like.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why was your mother paralysed?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

She had ulcerative colitis, and there were medications she had to take for it but after awhile she stopped taking the meds out of vanity because they had side effects that she thought made her look too "puffy," next thing I know she was in the hospital after having a stroke that paralyzed her at the age of 32 and she lived another 30 years paralyzed like that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Wow, sorry to hear that. Terrifying to think we can make one misstep and end up invalid in bed, the rest of our life.