u/PriorConnect4177

In 2014 my dad had both kidneys fail at the age of 47 due to a mixture of high blood pressure and the side effect of the medicine he had for that. Ever since then he's been in the hospital about 2 more times for different reasons related to the failure (once in 2016 and once in 2023) and both scenarios left him in ICU for days (thankfully he recovered and made it out of there) but his mobility and overall health has been declining slowly as of late, what used to be a small limp due to a bone disease from lack of calcium/phosphorus left him with a cane that we had to eventually switch out for a walker, and now a wheelchair seeing as he can barely stand under his own weight and has been falling more and more recently. His back and sides constantly throbs and aches because of the bone disorder than had deformed his ribs and back so that now he has a hump that he never had before and his ribs are spreading apart. He still goes to work, he's an opthalmologist who loves his job, but it's incredibly strenuous for him in terms of transport seeing he's gone from walking with a walker to now being wheeled in. He's incredibly independent and doesn't like being driven but unfortunately we have to now, and he requires a lot of help to stand up and move on his own. He's going to be 60 this year, and it's hard seeing the strong man youre used too be brought down to this by such a horrible failure. And as of late it's been getting to the point where he can't use the bathroom as easily as he should because of him using the walker to walk there. I hate to be a pessimist but I genuinely want to know, how long do you think we have left with him? I know you can't prepare yourself when death comes, but I just need to know.

Any insight, help, thoughts, even words of encouragement would mean the world. Thank you ♥️

And I wish you all the absolute best, and healing on this journey whether you're a caretaker, a patient, in the medical field or whatever the case may be

Going to college next year and I want to see if anyone with an economy/political science degree has any advice or experience in getting a job in the finance world? What would that degree be useful for? And will it be hard to find something with good pay?

Not a huge user of reddit but I figured since it's getting down to college application season every bit of advice helps, and sorry if this has been asked before

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How did you guys pick what colleges to go too and what was a deciding factor for you, was it the dorms, the student life, the profs, the parties, what made your college of choice "the one"

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