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LMyers1020

female, 50 just became a grandmother.

posted 05/17/2009, comments (3)

I just want to write today, It's been a bad one

I should be used to mom and her personality changes but I just can't. About every 3 months or so she becomes angry, and mean. This usually means that she is getting a UTI. This is the beginning of a long 2 week roller coaster of emotions. She will stay in bed, saying she wants to die, getting angry and... Read more Chevron

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posted 05/15/2009, comment (1)

5 Steps to Compassionate Caregiving

Communicating with the Dementia or Alzheimer’s AfflictedBy Charlotte ParkerWe are all born with a desire to give and receive love. Circumstances we encounter throughout our lives may callous that need, but it never fully dissipates. Sadly, as we grow older, we oftentimes become more challenging to love, and illnesses such as dementia or... Read more Chevron

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posted 05/09/2009, comments (4)

In Memory of my mother inlaw.

This will be a very hard letter to write. As of on May 7,2009 at 3.06 pm we lost my mother inlaw today. We were with her and been with her by her side. Up tell she took her last breath. Me and my husband heart ake so much today. She was a fighter up tell her last breath. Hazel was 91 and full of life all the time even when... Read more Chevron

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posted 05/04/2009, comments (6)

MIl with ad and me with ms

okay i have a Q hope someone can help me out please my mil has ad and i have ms the thing i would like to know is how to deal with someone with ad like trying to show them how to put on all there stuff right and she tells me why should i are anyone eles care how she outs on her stuff i try to tell her theres a right way and wrong way and she tells... Read more Chevron

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posted 04/02/2009, comments (2)

Pain and Alzheimer's

My father, 76 years old with early onset Alzheimer's, was a passenger in a car accident. He fractured two ribs and his sternum and feels very little pain from the injuries. He does remember the accident. Can the same thing that causes Alzheimers' also affect one's pain threshold? Or, is he just lucky?

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