Comments on: end stages

By: melissa

melissa — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:41:15 +0000

it runs in my husbands family…on both sides. i hope it skips him. because it’s a horrific illness.
i’m sorry for your family. hugs.

By: HAUTE COCO

HAUTE COCO — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:23:02 +0000

It runs in my family. My mother at 63 is now being faced with the same challenge her mother had 25 yrs ago. It is very difficult to deal with. But with love and care they make it through every phase of it.

By: Bethany

Bethany — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:26:36 +0000

I know exactly how you feel. My grandfather has Alzheimer’s and just the other day I was lamenting the fact that I will never again get an art set 5 years in a row from him…I won’t get anything. Just a shell of the person he used to be.

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By: JavaMom

JavaMom — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:53:34 +0000

What a lovely, moving post about a really horrible disease. Your stepmother is obviously a very kind woman to set aside the past and give this level of devotion to her ailing mother-in-law. I am so sorry both for the fact that she was not a loving grandmother when you were young, and for what you are going through now. What a great reminder for all of us to live our lives right now they way we WANT to be remembered.

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By: cdn lawyerista

cdn lawyerista — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:19:08 +0000

All I have to say is that I have been there and it really sucks. Sorry you have to go through this.

By: LibraryGirl

LibraryGirl — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:21:18 +0000

My grandpa died Jan1, 2003 after 5 years of hell. Not for him, he was pretty much gone by yer 3 1/2. But hell for my mom and her siblings and for my grandmother, who spent every available moment by his side, doing all the things her would not allow the nurses to do. She fed him, bathed him, changed him, listened to her minister husband curse and watched him strip naked. It is an awful disease and I am truly sorry.

By: Swistle

Swistle — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:31:44 +0000

So sad and so scary. My grandmother had this at the end, and the disease is what made us practically CELEBRATE when my grandmother was diagnosed with liver cancer and given just weeks. Celebrate. That’s a crappy, crappy disease, to make liver cancer good news.

By: Amanda of Shamelessly Sassy

Amanda of Shamelessly Sassy — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:32:11 +0000

This is such a touching post. When I was younger, one of my friends grandmother’s was in the beginning stages and lived with them. She had her own phone line, and all of her friends had sort of drifted off. So my friend and I would call her from the other line and act like we were her friends so she wouldn’t be lonely. Posing as a 71 year old women when you are 13 is sort of interesting. I had to make up random shit about dentures and such. We kept this up for at least 3 years. Looking back, it was a blast, and I’m glad we did it. It really kept her grandmother happy. (My code name was Opal, btw.)