1954...I'm sitting on top of that hill! I can see for miles - what a view...ahhhhh. Plan to hang on to the top tO MY DYING DAY. As my 85 year old uncle says, "Gonna live until I die!"

(((greer)))...i took care of my mother by myself for her last 8 years. Held her in my arms as she took her last breath. It was sometimes hard, frustrating, exhausting, but had it's own rewards. I have many sweet & tender memories of those years. To the very end my mother was a delightfully fun, sweet person. When she was gone, the time we had together for those years brought me great comfort. I'm trusting it will be the same for you - you are doing an incredibly loving thing. In the end, it will all have been worth it!

Thank you LouLou. I try to remember that everyday, as the alzheimers eats her brain up.

greer My Dad was the easy one and my Mom as you put it ( if you knew my Mother ). We went in circles you would have thought we were square dancing, here she would come, we locked elbows and I lead her right back to her chair. If I laid down to rest on the couch, she was always coming to ask some off the wall question and I would take her back to her chair. It wasn't her fault, she had just suffered too many mental breakdowns thru the years due to a my brother, who fried his brains on drugs. The tough part was she had to be dialized 4x's a day 7 days a week and she fought me every time I would do an exchange. Putting her in a nursing home wasn't an option, because they couldn't do the type dialysis she was on and I promised my Dad I would never put her in one anyway. God gave me the strength to get thru each day, but there were many difficult days.You are in my prayers. You have a good support group on here I see and that is so important. Thanks to all of you that help hold greer together, you are all special and she is an awesome woman.

If you call it that; SANE??????

When's the last time you were tested????

I can still move the toybox