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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Manlobbi 🐝🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: dementia
Date: 01/08/23 1:34 PM
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They try to keep her engaged, but she's resistant to socializing. Which doesn't help.

As I am rather certain that you already know, there is no good news that follows. I do empathise with you as I have experienced, in three different circumstances, the effect that dementia has on the family carer(s). In one case it sent on for 8 years (prior to death) and another it can on profoundly quickly, the first sign to death was a mere 12 months. I worked with this person, and could hardly believe it when I invited for a friendly coffee to a reply that he had died.

Your mother being in a care home is likely infinitely better - in this late phase of the problem where she can't even recognise your voice - than having her at home, increasingly failing to even recognising who you are, but you seeing her as the same month and having to go through the agony that I have seen others go through.

- Manlobbi
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