by RR 18 Replies latest social family
I'm sorry to hear that RR. I read recently that supreme court judge Sandra day O'Connor husband also has Alzheimer's and can't remember they are married and has taken a new girlfriend at the nursing center he is in.
It's such a devastating disease. hopefully they will have some significant breakthroughs soon.
I had a that something similar happened to-they did threatened to DF.
Hey Wednesday I saw that on a T.V program --the wife was sitting with him as he held the girlfriends hand. She realized he didnt know her.
All I can say if that how you get a boy friend at 80!!!!! ROLL ON ALZHEIMERS!!!
Hey RR,
Sorry to hear about your grandmother, I know what you are going thru my MIL has it and I don't think it will be long before we have to put her in a nursing home.
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I will never forget this. About the time my Grandma Betty (JW) was diagnosed with Alzheimers, we were down visiting her in Florida, we were sitting around talking and all of a sudden and non-chalantly she asked Amanda and I if we had been to church lately? We looked at each other stunned, so I didnt know what to say except "No, not lately, how about you?.
During the course of the conversation she also mentioned that she had a boyfriend, even though my stepgrandpa was in the room listening.
Sorry to hear about your grandmother, I know what you are going thru my MIL has it and I don't think it will be long before we have to put her in a nursing home.
Actually it's my mother-in-law. My mother has it also, she was just put in a home just before Thanksgiving. My parents live in Puerto Rico. I saw them back in April, and she didn't recognize me. In fact, her mind digress so much that according to her, she was not marreied with children, she lived at home with her parents. terrible illness I wouldn't wish ion my worse enemny ... well maybe minimus RR
My mom was a JW for 25 years and when she got to 85 I was taking care of her and she had dementia. Well she started cursing and and saying funny but inappropriate things sometimes. One day she said JW elders are a bunch of stuffed shirts and starting laughing after a CO and the Elders dropped by to visit her. I nearly fell out laughing because her personality was really shinning though. Toward the end she and I were not able to go to meetings but I so enjoyed the years I had with her taking care of her. She gave me much to think about. She actually came out and encouraged me to leave my JW husband because she knew he was making my so miserable. After she died I thought about her totally bright lucid times she had where she totally didn't give a shit what anyone thought. It was so cool.
Good for your Mom for forgetting about being a JW and going perhaps back to her roots.
Ruth
Here's a funny story. My wife called her mother and wished her a happy birthday and she just glushed "Oh, thank you!"
Having alzheimers, she doesn't remember her 30 years as a JW. She's now a birthday celebrating Catholic.
RR
What does her JW family and friends have to say? I would be surprised if they did not try and force her to go to meetings.
MY wife and her moms converted to the JWs in 1975. I joined in 1982, met my wife in 1988, we married in 1990 and walked away in 1992. Other than a cousin who diswoned us when we left, she has no family within the Witnesses.
RR
