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I've been having awful nightmares lately. Every night for the past two weeks. The past three nights I dreamt someone close to me died. My Grandmother, my Mother. I remember the one about my Grandmother more clearly, because she was recently diagnosed with Alzheimers, and in my dream she forgot everything, who she was, all the things that are common with Alzheimers. I think they made an incorrect diagnosis, I think she's had brain damage from years of TIA's. But the symptoms mimick other conditions, and short of a spinal tap,or autopsy, it's just a guessing game. Either way I'm afraid of what it will do to her. At one point she was having hallucinations, horrifying hallucinations. About children haunting her, she thought people were in her house, and that people were coming in through a trap door ,giving her shots and performing experiments on her. She was so terrified she would go 5 days without sleep. Then her idiotic doctor puts her on a WHOPPING dose of strong medication that has been proven unsafe in the elderly, especially those with a history of strokes. It angers me, how doctors act about elderly people having strokes. They make a big deal in the media about what to do if you you're having a stroke, call 911, go to the doctor, blah blah blah. Then the paramedics get there, and they're bitchy to have been bothered because another old person is having a stroke. The doctors are dismissive. They don't administer proper treatment because they figure the person is old and going to die soon anyway. That somehow makes them unworthy of good medical care, they don't deserve to live. I'm hoping the nightmares will at least end soon.
Went to see the Merchant of Venice last night. It was great. Very good acting. Most of all it made me think of the old hostilities between Christians and Jews. Maybe it's because I am a post ww2 born American, but I have never understood persecution of the Jews. The Holocaust was without doubt the worst in recent memory, but it's been happening for so long now. Why should Christians bear any ill will to Jews, or Jews to Christians, when we are so alike? I understand we have wronged each other throughout the years, especially the Vatican, but we're like brothers. Over the years we've become more tolerant of each other, but I don't understand why we don't embrace one another more. I don't see any excuse for anti-semitism. Even from the indoctrinated.
Went to see the Merchant of Venice last night. It was great. Very good acting. Most of all it made me think of the old hostilities between Christians and Jews. Maybe it's because I am a post ww2 born American, but I have never understood persecution of the Jews. The Holocaust was without doubt the worst in recent memory, but it's been happening for so long now. Why should Christians bear any ill will to Jews, or Jews to Christians, when we are so alike? I understand we have wronged each other throughout the years, especially the Vatican, but we're like brothers. Over the years we've become more tolerant of each other, but I don't understand why we don't embrace one another more. I don't see any excuse for anti-semitism. Even from the indoctrinated.