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Taking Out the Trash
At some point we noticed that mom had started hoarding papers, magazines, newspapers and mail. Her rooms was filled with stacks and stacks of papers everywhere -coffee tables, chairs, and boxes upon boxes with mixed up contents. I imagine that whenever she discovered something interesting she put it on a pile to save. She printed…
The Quietest Dining Room
Whenever I visit my mom at the Memory Care facility, I find her sitting in her wheelchair in the dining room. Usually she is just sitting quietly doing nothing like the other silent residents scattered across the tables. Most of the ten or so residents in her Memory Care congregate in the dining room all…
The Iron Maiden
Mom has had advanced dementia for the past two years (stage 6), and last year fell three times, resulting in a broken arm, a broken pelvic bone, and broken hip. The hip fracture required surgery and a rod through her thigh. We thought that the end was near, and hospice agreed. Family flew in to…
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Reckoning With Alzheimer's 