u/Dry_Response4914

Sorry, this is a vent...

Women are the majority of my country and black people are the majority in terms of race, as well. Yet, I only ever see middle-aged rich white men as candidates. Next elections there'll only be a single woman as a candidate and it's more likely to find intelligent life on the Moon than her winning the election.

I try hard to vote for black women, or at least women, but it's just SO difficult. It's gonna be a very tight race between far-right and center-left, so I kinda can't really cast a vote on her, and it drives me crazy...

I sometimes think that maybe I should vote on whoever I want, and if everyone did that, we'd be better off. But then, there's a very real chance of a damn fascist winning and spending the next four years working really hard to take away my few rights as a woman, and generally fucking over everyone who's basically not a priviledged white man. And the environment.

We need a seriously effective campaign for women voting on progressive (preferrably black) women...

I'll be 39 this Tuesday and this last week my dad, who's diagnosed with Frontotemporal Dementia with Parkinsonism (think Bruce Willis with a propensity for being inconvenient/having temper explosions and also falling down) presented new symptoms this last week, with speech deterioration (now we're having trouble understanding his words) and also confusion.

It's probably a side-effect of one of the meds his neurologist had returned to his prescription. It's alreasy been suspended ever since, but he's had little improvement from the symptoms. We've taken him to the emergency to get seen by doctors and it's not an infection or a stroke. It may be simply that the medication worsened his symptoms and now he's had a progression of the disease.

On top of it being painful, because we have a hard time understanding what he's saying - he was already forgetting the words, leaving phrases unfinished, and now it's also hard to comprehend what he does say.

This makes me just absolutely terrified, because I'm single, never even dated, and don't plan on having kids. My brother also doesn't want children. So, I have this very real chance of also developing dementia and will have no one to take care of me.

Do any of you also worry about something like this? Did you make any plan or something? How do you cope?

I think about making a legal document making two of my friends responsible for me and my affairs if I do get sick. I also thinking of talking to a friend who is a palliative care doctor, to see if he has any advice on the issue.

PS: I just noted therr's no "health" flair in this sub... Maybe there should also be? : )