My dad has had multiple sclerosis for some years now, and cant do many things that he wants to do so me and my family help as best as we can to make him achieve his goals. He's a huge plane fanatic, he makes models and makes them fly, researches everything about them and is currently in a model club were he meets his friends and fly planes together.
Basicly, my dad seems really depressed the past few months and he isn't the man who likes to show you what he feels. We try to make him happy by doing different things, I go to the model club with him and pretend to enjoy it dispite I find it really damn boring, buying him a new PC so he can play simulation games and generally helping him out. He's stubborn and doesn't like to be held back from doing things like gardening, so we help out there aswell.
My mum told me today that he said to her that he felt like 'lying down and just crying' because he knows he cant do the things he always wanted to do, it broke my heart because I have never seen my dad cry, but I know he feels like shit everyday because of his condition. I was thinking of asking you fine poeple a way to cheer him up, because he's just getting miserable every day and he doesn't let poeple know how he feels, it's hard to know how to make him happy (and buying gifts)
Sorry about the poorly written thread, Thanks.
TLDR: Dad has MS, is depressed. what do.
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buy a plane and crash it into ur house
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If he is a plane fanatic why not see if you can get him to fly in a famous plane, like a fighter jet or something.
[editline]21st April 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=The Mighty Boatman;29335539]crash a plane into ur house[/QUOTE]
thats dumb, your dumb, get out.
LMAO Pics?
But really, that sucks and I wish you, your family and your dad the best of luck
[QUOTE=RagamuffinIIII;29335547]If he is a plane fanatic why not see if you can get him to fly in a famous plane, like a fighter jet or something.[/QUOTE]
He wont be able to, not unless it's adapted for him.
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Take him to an airshow.
Is there an air force base near where OP lives? Perhaps you could have him tour a jet.
Where are you currently living? I can get you on an Air Force base and possibly see some planes up close.
He might have it but why don't you buy him one of those big catalogs with and about everything of all planes in the world! That way he can learn more about them and get to know new planes! :buddy:
Just hang out with him. Take him out to dinner, and to the cinema and stuff. Dads love that kind of thing.
Write a letter to a local company that flies around Cessna's and what not. Explain your story and maybe they'll take you and your dad along for a ride?
Could he build something like a remote controlled plane?
build him a huge model plane in your garden
Take him to an airshow.
My dad takes me to those yearly and they're so incredibly fun.
Whatever you do, don't show him this thread.
[QUOTE=The Mighty Boatman;29335539]buy a plane and crash it into ur house[/QUOTE]
Especially this part of it.
Talk to him directly.
Depression is a deep-set illness and will not simply go away just you bought/attended/said something temporal. Address the root of the problem.
MS will always stop him from doing what he wants, you'll have to give him a good talk about getting over it. You can't possibly keep substituting it.
Hooker
He says he can't do what he used to, try to find something new he likes the he can do.
Talk to him, maybe planes isn't his favorite hobby, get to know him better. this thread broke my heart, my dad's an alcoholic.
[QUOTE=JeffAndersen;29335649]Where are you currently living? I can get you on an Air Force base and possibly see some planes up close.[/QUOTE]
UK, Near Liverpool.
He goes to airshows often aswell. But cant stay long or his legs start acting up.
You should talk to him about doing a sponsored event. If he's into the whole plane / space / piloting thing, you should get him to do a sponsored flight on one of those "zero-gravity" parabolic flights. It'd be an experience of a lifetime while also raising money for a charity of his choice. Disabled people CAN fly on these things, Stephen Hawking did it a couple of years back and he's fully wheelchair ridden!
Sounds great :D
We are climbing up Mt.Snowden next week fund raising for MS.
That sucks. Depression is a symptom of MS though, so that might be it. I hope he'll be okay though, thread made me sad.
He's depressed.
Anti-Depressants, yo.
:C
Show him the Monty Python skit with the sheep :3:
Get him some weed and tell him that you want to help him with his MS and when it gets very bad you just make him feel better every day :)
What about introducing him to FPV
[url]http://www.buyagift.co.uk/Category/Id/3667/Name/Top_Flying_Gifts?cm_re=flying_experiences-_-Images-_-top_flying_gifts[/url]
Loads of flying experiences on there, you don't have to be able to fly them as well
If you want I have a voucher from that McDonald's monopoly thing for 20% off that I could PM you
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