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To: tiki; Casie
"Having dealt with a mother with Alzheimer’s and dealing with a MIL with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type, that doesn’t sound like a bad proposition."

"My heart goes out to you. I understand what you are going through and I would not wish it on any family."

My mother was VERY firm on her wishes.....when she could no longer live on her own, she was to be put in a nursing home...period. She had had to care for her grandmother who had dementia and didn't want to saddle her children with such a task.

12 posted on 12/03/2012 5:04:19 AM PST by Wonder Warthog
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To: Wonder Warthog

My MIL actually has a Long Term Care policy and my sisters-in-law still wouldn’t let us put her in a home until 2 months ago and now that we have she has lost so much cognitive ability that it is almost impossible and we are having to look for a lock-down facility. They have waiting times of several years around here.

Of course, they weren’t the ones taking care of her and I finally put my foot down and said that we wouldn’t take care of her a day more and they could do it and they changed their minds overnight.


19 posted on 12/03/2012 11:32:45 AM PST by tiki
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