Re: Saw my Mom yesterday
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12/31/22 09:28 AM
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She sounds like a great lady 330. Dementia is a terrible thing to deal with. God bless
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Re: Saw my Mom yesterday
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12/31/22 10:03 AM
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Keep those memories front in your head. Dementia/alzheimers is a slo way to go. Especially for the family.
Very sorry for the pain you are in. Take your mom her favorite food if they will let you.
How many lies will people believe before they realize their own idiocy?
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Re: Saw my Mom yesterday
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12/31/22 10:46 AM
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My Wife and I drove to Eau Claire yesterday to visit with My Mother. ...she's 80 and has dimensia
She didn't know Us ...thought she did but not really. Painful
Mom was the Freedom in our Childhood...she grew up in the Wisconsin woods running wild just outside if Fiefield.
...she promoted me as a kid in Any type of out of the box Adventure.
Three years ago I had a Coyote in a MB650 near our cows. I went back to the House where Mom was visiting and she said. Let's go kill it. She got some spare boots of mine on and jumped on the 4 wheeler with me. She took several pictures before I dispatched it. She Always was Game for anything outdoors.
Great write up on your Mom. My father in law is a few years into dementia. It's very sad watching such a good man, who was one of the hardest working men I have ever known, waste away.
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Re: Saw my Mom yesterday
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12/31/22 11:00 AM
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Sorry you're going through this, a old friend of mine's wife was going through it and he went to see her everyday and the nurse told him he wouldn't have to come everyday and she wouldn't even know but he told well, I would...good days and bad days, very painful, again so sorry
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Re: Saw my Mom yesterday
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12/31/22 11:31 AM
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Dam that disease. My best to you 330.
Osky
"A womans heart is the hardest rock the Almighty has put on this earth, and I can find no sign on it" Jabless in Minnesota www.SureDockusa.com
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Re: Saw my Mom yesterday
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12/31/22 07:34 PM
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The difficult part for us is to stop trying to pull them back to the present.
For them, the present is where they are already. That's it. My mom passed with it as well.
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Re: Saw my Mom yesterday
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12/31/22 07:48 PM
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Same thought here too, Scott.
I have found too, that going with their thoughts , yet still being able to guide them in any present task they need to do, or help in doing, is the happiest for them, and me.
One lady , who used to show Saddlebreds long ago, all she wanted to do was talk of getting her saddle and going riding with me. She hadn't ridden in 30 years. She spoke of it as though it was yesterday. I told her we would go riding soon, and we spoke of the fun she had showing.
When I would have to leave, she would just be beaming happy. Sometimes she recalled me. Other times the staff would tell me how she mentioned a nice lady she met who wanted to ride with her .
Heartbreaking. Though, having them as happy in the past as possible, is far better than the opposite, if there is no choice.
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Re: Saw my Mom yesterday
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I'm glad to see a picture of you and your mom. My mother has Alzheimer's and on and off battles with dementia. At first it made me cry like I haven't in quite some time. Now I just embrace her and thank God for all the times we do have together. Being thankful for what we do have and my faith have helped me through this. Sounds like your mom was and will always be quite the lady. Godbless
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