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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nason.

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Speaker 2: You're in Brisbane on the weekend.

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Speaker 3: I don't have to see my dad. He's amazing. He's

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Speaker 3: ninety and until this year he really apart from the

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Speaker 3: day he was born, he hasn't spent a single day

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Speaker 3: in hospital. My brother and I think we've got mum's bones.

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Speaker 3: I've had hip replacements. Cameron's come off his bike and

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Speaker 3: has had broken ribs and a head knock and it's

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Speaker 3: a blood drained from his brain.

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Speaker 2: If you come off a bike, there is going to be.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's got he's got arthritis in his hips

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Speaker 3: and a whole lot of stuff.

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Speaker 1: But Dad is like a bull. He just keeps going.

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Speaker 1: But this year it's all starting to get a bit

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Speaker 1: harder for.

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Speaker 3: Him, and he's got some dementia now. And I know

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Speaker 3: a lot of you are going through this where it's

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Speaker 3: so hard to see your parent diminished and when you

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Speaker 3: kind of become the parent in a way. And I

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Speaker 3: was helping him because so we went up there and

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Speaker 3: we went to visit him and he was a bit

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Speaker 3: short of breath, he had a bit of gas stro

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Speaker 3: and he wasn't feeling great, but still full of good

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Speaker 3: cheer and funny and all the stuff he always was.

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Speaker 3: But he found out later and said he thought he

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Speaker 3: needed to go to hospital. So my brother Cameron and

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Speaker 3: I took him into the hospital and just helping him

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Speaker 3: out of his shirt. He's so thin now he wears

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Speaker 3: it's like you know the opening scene of Get Smart,

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Speaker 3: with all the buttons and the locks. He's got jean

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Speaker 3: pants with a belt on as well as brace is

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Speaker 3: holding all of that up. But to put the gown

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Speaker 3: on him because they wanted to do a chest blah blahs.

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Speaker 1: Just seeing his little soft skin and just seeing him

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Speaker 1: so diminished.

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Speaker 2: And your dad doesn't usually go to hospital. He's one

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Speaker 2: of those guys, never been, never been, but he never

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Speaker 2: rings as a panicky piecha no, And.

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Speaker 1: That's why we knew.

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Speaker 3: And we have had that lecture many times with Dad

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Speaker 3: saying they would they and we would rather you were

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Speaker 3: in there than being sick at home. So that's that's

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Speaker 3: exactly right. But there was a moment where we saw

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Speaker 3: that he hadn't really been taking all of his tablets.

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Speaker 3: He's forgotten to take them, ironically, because there is dementia,

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Speaker 3: you know, anti anxiety, all this sort of stuff that

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Speaker 3: keeps all of that maybe a bit or at bay

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Speaker 3: for him. So ha'd such gratitude to Cameron and his

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Speaker 3: wife Kerry, who were taking such good care of Dad.

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Speaker 3: Dad lives on his own and we're trying to find

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Speaker 3: a place for him to be. But you know, it's

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Speaker 3: just hard and Dad, who was always the funniest, sharpest

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Speaker 3: person in the room, to see him not remember things.

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Speaker 3: He knows who we are and all of that, but

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Speaker 3: you'll give him some instructions and he's forgotten them by

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Speaker 3: the time you get to the end of the instructions

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Speaker 3: and everything has to be written down.

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Speaker 1: He's got this diary. It looks like that scene from

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Speaker 1: A Beautiful Mind is just all over the shop. But

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Speaker 1: what was great.

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Speaker 3: Is that that afternoon when we were driving him to

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Speaker 3: the hospital and we spent hours in the hospital waiting

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Speaker 3: for him to be sorted out.

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Speaker 1: You know, Cameron and we laughed and laughed.

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Speaker 3: It was great and Dad, we've always been a family

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Speaker 3: who have told each other we love each other, but

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Speaker 3: we laugh at each other as well, And it was

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Speaker 3: a really nice afternoon, and we spoke about what Dad

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Speaker 3: wanted at the end, and he doesn't want anything.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't really want any of that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but we were laughing about how we're going to

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Speaker 3: bury him alive because we're getting sick of it now.

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Speaker 3: So it's all that kind of that's so much our family.

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Speaker 3: But my children called up to check that their grandfather's okay.

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Speaker 3: Cameron's kids called up, and I said to Dad.

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Speaker 1: Look at that. Look at this a legacy of love

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Speaker 1: that you're leaving. And when we grew up, were your

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Speaker 1: parents like this? Did you ever say I love you?

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Speaker 3: Our generation Anglo Saxon parents, I don't think we knew

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Speaker 3: we were loved. We didn't ask them to tell us that.

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Speaker 3: But after Mom died something and Dad loosened a bit,

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Speaker 3: and he's always said I love you, And we all

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Speaker 3: do that with each other now in a way that

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Speaker 3: we didn't when we grew up.

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Speaker 2: True, generationally, my kids are more tactile with that than

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Speaker 2: we were when I was like. I didn't even hang

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Speaker 2: out with my dad until I was about thirty, and

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Speaker 2: it was because my brother in law. One time they said, oh,

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Speaker 2: we're going for yumcha and I said, well, why aren't

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Speaker 2: I coming along? And they said, oh, you can come

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Speaker 2: if you want. But my brother in law and my

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Speaker 2: dad had a better relationship when I was thirty, So

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Speaker 2: it took all those years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting you do move away and your parents

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Speaker 3: are your parents, and then at some point you think

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Speaker 3: what interesting people, and then at some point you see

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Speaker 3: how fallible they are. And now I see how vulnerable

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Speaker 3: he is. But as I said to Dad there when

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Speaker 3: I said to the kids, this isn't that weekend, This

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Speaker 3: isn't that moment, this isn't that hospital stay. But who

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Speaker 3: knows when that will bear because he's ninety. But as

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Speaker 3: I said to Dad and to Cameron, we've had nothing

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Speaker 3: left un set. So anyway I came away.

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Speaker 1: He's got the clean.

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Speaker 3: Bill of he'll outlive all of us.

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Speaker 1: He's got a clean bill of health as to what's

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Speaker 1: going on in.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that actually took a great burden off me on

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Speaker 2: the weekend.

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Speaker 3: But it was hard seeing his dementia because I think

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Speaker 3: Cameron's kept a lot of that from me because of

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Speaker 3: stuff we're going through with Harley. At time, of course,

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Speaker 3: I said, no, you know, I was so pleased to

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Speaker 3: be able to see Cameron.

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Speaker 1: I see what you're doing, and thank you. It's hard.

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Speaker 2: You didn't feed him that egg, did you?

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Speaker 1: No, I didn't it's funny.

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Speaker 3: You'd made a joke about making us all sick by

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Speaker 3: me giving him an over hard boiled egg that had

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Speaker 3: been on the desk overnight.

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Speaker 1: No, I didn't.

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Speaker 3: Nature had taken care of Nature had given him gastro

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Speaker 3: a few weeks ago, and he's still dealing with that.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad that's on the men. That's good.

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Speaker 1: Well, he is he is, but it's hard to see

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Speaker 1: of course,