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To: GoodyBrown
You are certainly correct about that...the father becoming the child, and the child becoming the mom...it was even more pronounced with my mom....One of the reasons I had to take care of dad, was that mom was about in the middle stages of Alzheimers, so she did not understand the care that dad needed....

After he died, I kept her in her own home, for a while, and then brought her to live with me , and my family....in the end, she thought she was only a young teenager, and that I was her mother...she would sometimes call me 'mommy'...I had to do everything for her, that she did for me when I was a baby...feed her, dress her, change her diapers, etc. etc...I have often been struck that Shakespeares ages of man, is very often so true for some....

820 posted on 02/11/2002 3:39:01 PM PST by andysandmikesmom
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To: andysandmikesmom
I am facing that now with someone who is 97, still sharp as a tack but slowly physically fading.
827 posted on 02/11/2002 3:59:42 PM PST by GoodyBrown
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