"I am the very model of a Newsgroup Personality
 I intersperse obscenity with tedious banality.
 Addresses I have plenty of, both genuine and ghosted to,
 On all the countless newsgroups that my drivel is cross-posted to.

Dear friends,
Yesterday we had a nice christmas dinner and a couple hours afterwards Ida
had her first serious potty "accident."    Had to get her changed and washed
up, and everything else all cleaned up too.    Till now it has just been

Hello, My father has had alzheimers for about 3-4 years.  His memory
has gotten really bad the past few months and within the past 3 weeks,
he ahs started urinating on himself and his speech has gotten really
bad,  He has to use a wheel chair more now. The nursing home called

Just what I have been fearing for months....my sister got notification
mom is bouncing checks.....we have no idea exactly what she has done yet
but my sis is having a fit cause she is on the account....the weird part
was mom had just called me and said she needed a ride to the

I did a funny thing on xmas eve . . . im driving my daughter to town around
7pm in the rain and a call comes through on my business line.  I have the
rule of _never_ answering the phone after hrs unless I recognize the number,
but I just answered it on a whim . . .

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Hi everyone- I don't rad the NG regularly anymore, but in recent
scans, I saw a note from Pianoguy , Nightwing and some other
"oldtimers" around the holidays- and see posts from Mare on a regular
basis- but haven't seen anything from Pam in quite some time- and

After taking care of Bertie, I often wonder if my "antenna" is just
hypersensiive to any signs of alzheimers disease.  I know that Aunt
Flo seeing monkeys on the wall is a definite red flag.  We are getting
ready to do a family intervention and see how far we can get with that

 My gran (87) lives in sheltered housing ( Scot. UK) but there is not a
resident warden. Mum (62) stayed there nearly all last winter and she can't
really cope with that again this year.
   Gran often turns off the individual radiators and even tries to turn of

Mom's been in the dementia unit of the assisted living facility where she
was living for almost 2 months now and I thought things were finally going
along ok - but on Christmas her walker disappeared and they put it on me!
This really irritates me.  Clarification - she was in plain ...

One of those times I feel having my father in early stages of dementia may
be especially trying:
My father has a television in his bedroom, a small combination TV/VCR unit.
He's got a satellite receiver in there, and an output from his computer, and

Hello again,
I'm still here, lurking, reading posts. Forgive me that I so seldom post. This
is a particularly hard day for me. I have a cold and couldn't go see Mom. She
was expecting me so I phoned. I knew she would be upset, and she was. She was a

I just wanted to say hi as I have read a lot of the posts, responded to
one and have gotten a wealth of information.  I've only been reading
these for a couple days and plan on making this a habit.  My father is
not diagnosed yet with the dreaded Alzheimer's, but his doctor believes

Kerouac Christmas
"Tonight," I thought, "I sleep tight and long and pray under the stars for
the Lord to bring me to Buddhahood after my Buddhawork is done, amen." And
as it was Christmas, I added "Lord bless you all and merry tender Christmas