Hi everybody,

It was very good to hear so many say I should remain.

We have all been through a special kind of life-journey here, and it is true
that we are a family of sorts.   I am just hoping I don't offend anyone here
with these tales of later stage issues.   Please be aware that it is not
intentional if anyone is offended.

We just left Ida a few minutes ago.  She is doing so much better in the
wheel chair than in the merry walker.   She looks much more alert and
relaxed at the same time.   She had a sort of "frazzled" look in the walker.
She was just eating her dinner when we arrived.

Hubby and I went to bring her clean clothes in and to pick up the laundry
since we are doing it ourselves.   She asked him if he had eaten.   He said
"no. but we are going to go and eat now"... she replied "Okay, I am eating
now too, then we will go....."   He said he would see her later, and we
left.

She really, really wants to go home.   I thought we were done with her
wanting to go home all the time, but I guess we are not.

There is one person there (who was formerly in the daycare center) and this
woman paces continuously.   She is very thin and she just paces and paces
and paces.   She also has a habit of grabbing at everyone who comes into the
unit.   It is a bit unnerving and hard to deal with.

I recalled that at one point she had been grabbing at Ida perhaps a year or
two ago, and one gentleman protected Ida from her.   Now they are in the
same alzheimer unit in the same nursing home.