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What’s Happening To Me?
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Mom is 88 and has been home bedridden and incontinent for 6 weeks now. She can only have clear liquids and puréed foods. She eats well, and has moments of clarity with other times asking for relatives that have passed or insisting to go
Home when she is home. It is the saddest thing to watch my 90 year old dad as he is still looking for a miracle. We have been on hospice for a couple weeks now as she is end stage dementia. Tonight mom asked dad what is happening to me? How
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posted October 28, 2020
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Pat is 73 and can remember little, even things that were said or happened minutes ago. Yet she, too, has those moments of clarity and asks “what’s wrong with me?”. I haven’t found an answer that satisfies her or me. For now, I just deny there is anything wrong. I’m becoming a consummate teller of little white lies. I do it so much that my conscious no longer recognizes them as untruths.

posted October 29, 2020

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