RE: Digest response - Theresa's Mom and Alzheimers

Oh, Jesse, I'm so sorry for your loss.  Give your daughter a big hug for
me - I know how miserable she must be.  

Lynda
Zone 7 - West TN 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of Judy Browning
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 8:05 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Digest response - Theresa's Mom and Alzheimers


Oh, that is so sad. Accidents happen, but it still is so hard. Give her
a 
hug from me. Definitely you'll both be in my prayers. Wallace is ok now,
but 
you will hurt over it.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jesse Bell" <silverhawk@flash.net>
To: "Gardenchat" <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 5:32 PM
Subject: [CHAT] Digest response - Theresa's Mom and Alzheimers


> Theresa, I feel for you too (regarding your mother). My dad's mother 
> had Alzheimers and my mother's mother had dementia. Now MY mother is 
> slipping away and won't get checked. She is forgetting how to spell 
> her kids' names and birthdays, and can't remember basic things. My dad

> knows that she is slipping but if he says anything to her she gets 
> defensive.
> *sigh* I read everything I can get my hands on to AVOID getting it. I
> take after my dad's side of the family (very strongly) and if my
> grandmother had it...I run a chance of getting it too. I am constantly
> trying to work my brain...reading, cross-word puzzles...and eventually
> learning a new language (when I get the chance).
>
>
> (FYI - on a sad note tonight, we lost one of our dogs. Please say a 
> prayer for Wallace and my daughter. She did not know he was under her 
> car and he is so BIG he couldn't crawl out from under it in time. She 
> didn't know he was out of his yard so she didn't think to "count 
> heads". We had to put him down today because the damage was so bad. We

> are both in tears tonight. Gardenchat is like family to me...so I 
> curled up with my computer tonight - with a box of kleenex)
>
>
>  Jesse
>
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