Can you stop Someone turning into a cantankerous old fart

[biggs682]

With the onset of old age , how do you if you can stop a loved or cared for one turning into a cantankerous old fart ?

 

[Yellow Saddle]

There is medicine available for the latter part of the said ailment.

 

[Dayvo]

Put 'something' in their morning tea to help take the edge off the day.

Not an easy one. I have a lot of older friends (ex rugby and cricket team mates) and most are going/have gone that way. Seems they're only happy when they're miserable. (some of my younger ex team mates could well say the same about me!).

Could be as simple as a deficiency of vitamin D http://articles.mercola.com/sites/a...5/28/vitamin-d-deficiency-signs-symptoms.aspx

But I suppose that as we get older we start venturing into the darker depths of our brain/soul/whatever.

Laughter could be the best medicine. http://blablawriting.com/laughter-is-the-best-medicine-essay

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I've failed to be able to stop myself going down that route, things that would never have even come onto my radar cause me grief & mental pain everyday

 

[steveindenmark]

I am 58 and have waited a long time to become a COF. I am so looking forward to it

 

[Dan Morinary]

Dignitas.

 

[Dayvo]

Worryingly, I recognise rather too many of these definitions.

http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/cantankerous

 

[srw]

Damn fool question. Of course you can't. And less of the "old", you young whippersnapper.

 

[Dayvo]

I should point out that Mercola is not particularly known as a reliable source...

Possibly not, but vitamin D deficiency is a well-known and recognised condition.

 

[MarquisMatsugae]

At 43 ,I already enjoy being carnaptious.

 

[Crackle]

Well at least I'm not fekkiin cantankerous.

Now 3bm and rich on the other hand....

 

[welsh dragon]

 

[postman]

Take it from me.There is no cure.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Maybe some sort of definitive test should be devised, so that if you show symptoms, you can have the test at the doctors and if you fail, you are rounded up and shot.

Then we can all breath a sigh of relief and say things like

'It was the best thing to do, we didn't want to prolong their pain unnecessarily.'

But also we can then say

'Oh yeah, do you remember that (enter name here), what a right twat he turned into, so we had to have him put down, it was the kindest thing for all our sakes'.

 

[Crackle]

Maybe some sort of definitive test should be devised, so that if you show symptoms, you can have the test at the doctors and if you fail, you are rounded up and shot.

Then we can all breath a sigh of relief and say things like

'It was the best thing to do, we didn't want to prolong their pain unnecessarily.'

But also we can then say

'Oh yeah, do you remember that (enter name here), what a right twat he turned into, so we had to have him put down, it was the kindest thing for all our sakes'.

You can't do that: There'd be no one left on CC!