Abby Re: Coyote

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Wow, your sister could easily be my brother. In the beginning I

thought it was just because I was a " girl " and girls are naturally

nurturers and want to take care of EVERYBODY by " instinct " , and I

figured he just didnt have the instinct cuz he was a guy. Now I can

see that I was wrong...he's just stubborn like your sister. ( " oh.

theres nothing wrong with HIM, he's just getting old " ..as IF I cant

tell the difference between " where'd I put my keys? " type

of " forgetfulness " and " Hey, I just went to Baghdad and met the prez

and Saddam! " ) Geez! They are not even " horses " that cant be led to

water.....more like STUBBORN MULES.....(or...dare I say *asses*???)

ROFLMAO.

I know your sister is closer (geographically) than my brother is, so

I am really sorry you cant enjoy the bliss that " distance " provides.

I was so worried when Jeff came back from Afghanistan...but within

like 2 weeks he lost his license for DUI...soooooo...I can now live

in peace again, for awhile.

Hang in there girl...we'll get through this!

Hugs, Coyote

> Good analogy! Ain't no way my sister's ever gonna drink so why

> bother to lead her there.

>

> For a while, when my dad was first diagnosed with the brain tumor,

my

> sister and I mended a barrier between us dating a few months back

> when she tried to tell me whether or not my youngest son should or

> should not nap. When the neurologist confirmed my dad had a brain

> tumor I called her and we made a very tenuous peace but that

eroded

> during the time my dad was hospitalized in October before he was

d/x

> with LBD. After doing some research on the net (using Google and

> typing in Alzheimers with physical limitations), Lewy Body

Dementia

> came up. At the time I had never heard of it (oh what glorious

days

> those were...remember those, when we never imagined what LBD would

> cause to our LOs...) and I called my sister and asked her to

continue

> reading up on it while I drove my kids to school and drove down to

> the hospital. While I got to the hospital, I called her to see

what

> she thought and her immediate words were, " Dad can't have that.

Dad

> has delirium because of the anaesthesia. That disease isn't

> curable. Dad doesn't have that. " Well, weeks later when a

> neurologist, a neuro psychologist and the geriatric specialist all

> came to that conclusion, my sister scoffed their diagnosis. I

don't

> know if it's because it's what I had thought he had or if it's

> because she doesn't want what's happening to my dad to mean what

LBD

> does in its final stages. I'm hoping it's the latter.

>

> Well, that's the history.

>

> Thanks again Coyote for being such a good friend and a great

advisor.

>

> Abby