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Special K

Hi Nina

So sorry that your Mom is dieing from this dreadful disease.

I'm thinking about you and your family.

This will be hard on you..try to take care of yourself through this, Nina.

(((( Big Hugs ))))

Special K

wannaexit

Watching a parent get so sick must be very hard. Sorry. My prayers are with you

wannaexit

You are all wonderful! Thank you so much for your kind and loving words. And thanks, Sixy and Love_Truth, for those wonderful poems. Mom has had, to quote my dear Aunt Mona, "a good run." She led a very interesting life and witnessed a lot of history.

Her parents immigrated from Greece to America in 1910 and 1912, and Mom was their third child, born in Richmond, Virginia in 1917. She told me that she used to see Confederate veterans of the Civil War sitting in the park where she played. The family moved to New Jersey at some point, and she lived there until she married. She remembers the Jazz Age and the Great Depression. She worked in New York as a soda jerk when she was 15, then became a secretary and then an accountant for the Royal Dutch/Shell Group during World War II. As a side business, she designed and made beautiful hats for New York society ladies. She knew the Andrews Sisters (they were Greek too). She rode the elevator at Rockefeller Center, where her office was, with Perry Como occasionally. She sneaked out of the house to go on a blind date and ended up in a hotel room watching two mobsters spend the evening "fixing" slot machines, which she found really boring. She attended Minsky's Burlesque.

In 1948 she met and married my dad, a sailor originally from Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. Together they lived in Hawaii (where I was born), Pennsylvania, California, the Virgin Islands, Australia, and Texas. It was not a traditionally happy marriage but they filled needs for each other: hers to control and his to be controlled.

All in all, not a bad life! Oh well, there was that JW part . . . .

Love you all,

Nina

Sentinel

(((Nina))) This must be very difficult for you. Having good medical information is definitely a plus. I would also want to know as much as possible about what to expect.

Take care of yourself.

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codeblue

(((Nina)))

I am so sorry that you are going thru this.

My Dad had alzheimers about 4 years before he died.....I would call and he wouldn't know who I was until I told him....He died of a heart attack....at 65...young...

I feel for ya at this time...

Love,

Codeblue

acsot

(((Nina)))

I wish you all the courage and comfort you can find during this terrible time. We're never ready for our parents' passing, no matter when or how.

Love

Ac

Valis

Nina..I know what you are going through...my grandmother started her slow decline into the depths of Alzhiemers when I was in my late teens. She accused me many times of stealing five thousand dollars from her repeatedly...after a while it became like a repeating dialogue that I played out over and over ....while I lived on my grandparents property there were several times when I would come home and she had come to my small shack and tore everything up. No particular reason....other than the off comments about demons or something...leaving bacon frying on the stove then walking out of the house...being found an hour or two later digging through someone's trash, meanwhile the kitchen at home is in flames and my uant w/severe cerebral palsy is in the other room.. She also hoarded things to the extreme. Boxes of cereal that dated to the seventies...gobs and gobs of shampoo, cardboard, rubber bands, bottle caps, soap, etc...Well to make it worse she kept it all in one room. Which happened to be right next to the bathroom. One was never to go into that room and I think this added to some of her paranoid delusion...she would freak out and start w/the yelling about going in there..It eventually became a family joke, but it was sad nonetheless. So I feel for ya and you know I'm around if you need a listening ear.

Sincerely,

District Overbeer

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