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[avonsd]

Life with an aging parent is a real treat, and mine is no exception. My mother turned 89 years old last October. Physically, although frail, she is in pretty good shape. She takes all kinds of medications, for osteoporosis, for high blood pressure, for heart problems. When my father died, in February of 2005, following a fall in the nursing

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[urgayleswoman]

I'm learning so much more about you through your lj. Good luck today (((HUGS)))

[avacontessa]

hello dear Avon, I am glad to read about you in LJ now.
I hope you will get through this.
I just want to add also that I don't leave comments in LJ that are not friendlocked, as a general precaution and for matters of privacy. Which explains why I don't comment in your LJ... but I am still here. ;)

[urgayleswoman]

Avon you may want to consider friends locking at least your more personal entries. Just a word of unsolicited advice : )

[avonsd]

Ava, my dear, I'm so new at this, I'm not really sure how to do that -- friend-lock -- but I've now tried and hope it works. I got a strange message from someone in Russia the other day that I didn't understand, but felt too foolish to ask a) how it happened, and b) how to prevent it from happening again!

By reading Aflon's post in Freya's LJ, I just found out how to insert italics and bold type in messages, so I'm trying to learn all the time.

And, Pearl, any are always welcome! (Hey . . . it works!)

[freya1220]

Oh dear, how difficult for you. I hope she has a window of clarity, and listens to you.

[wwowie]

Aging parents are so difficult to deal with, but my sister's the closest to my dad (am I a bad daughter?).

[gutentag1]

{{{HUGS}}} I know it's hard. Although my mother hasn't come to this stage yet, I did watch my grandmother's mind deteriorate like this too. She insisted the town's government was rearranging houses with a crane while the residents were at work, and she thought they were being quite mean because she swore they were putting the houses in the trees so that people would have to climb them to get into their houses. We couldn't convince her that the town really wasn't doing this to people, but she refused to leave her house because of it and was finally put into a home until the end. It's difficult when you can't find a way to get the person you love so much to understand that the things they believe are real are not real.