my MIL has been driving me NUTS for 2 days because someone made the mistake
of telling her that she was "going out tomorrow evening"
she ready to go about 10 minutes after he left, and has been anxiously
waiting to be picked up ever since...  took her pjs off repeatedly last

Ida's story..
Ida was born in Estonia near Tallinn, the 7th of nine children, in 1920.
She lost her
mother when she was only 13, her father having died even before that.   She

Miyanaga K.
Gunma Mental Health Center.
Drugs to treat the primary symptoms of dementia are nootropics
(anti-dementia medicine). These can be divided into three stage

OK last week I called my sister and told her she needed to get over to
moms on the first cause SS checks come on the Fri before if the third is
on a weekend...she was sick in bed with the flu...I didnt know but a few
days later my mom was going HAHAHAH I got my check...and she (my ...

We just got some flowers.  Guess who sent it?   The nursing home!
Isn't that a nice touch?

When my MIL was diagnosed, the neurologist said her MRI showed "classic
brain shrinkage patterns consistent with Alzheimer's".  They had done the
MRI to rule out CJD and other problems.  But they emphasized that
Alzheimer's was a diagnosis inferred from several indicators and could ...

Ida still recognizes both her son and me.  She is having a bit of a hard
time breathing, so they are using a nebulizer to help.  Her tummy is a bit
distended due to the cancer, but she says she isn't in pain when we ask her.
They give her pain killers whenever needed, which is ...

68 Against the Sea
Carl B. Wall
More than a thousand recorded hurricanes have been spawned over the flat,
dead reaches of the Sargasso Sea.  Last year one of these fearful storms

Ramirez G, Toro R, Dobeli H, von Bernhardi R.
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Pontificia Universidad
Catolica de Chile, Marcoleta 391, Santiago, Chile; Faculty of Medicine,
Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile.

Onyango IG, Bennett JP Jr, Tuttle JB.
Center for the Study of Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of
Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA; Department
of Neuroscience, University of Virginia, MR4 Building Room 6148, 300

Are there any scientific studies that link cholesterol drugs (Lipitor,
Zocor, ect) as a cause of Alzheimers?  My mother is taking Lipitor.  My
father seems to think it is the reason for her dementia.  Mom takes
several medications for various conditions, and her medications are

Neurology. 2005 Apr 12;64(7):1152-6. Links
Evidence of increased oxidative damage in subjects with mild cognitive
impairment.
Keller JN, Schmitt FA, Scheff SW, Ding Q, Chen Q, Butterfield DA,

Ida looks bad.  Struggling for breath, but with the nebulizer helping some.
She is really out of it, and does not respond to anything.   They are giving
her pain meds every 4 hours and administering an oral narcotic drops to help
when she is gasping for breath.  The doctor says ...

It may not be much longer.
She has been getting pain killers every 4 hours.
Ida may be finally getting ready to go home.
Any prayers are appreciated.

I have lurked in this group for a while but not written
anything myself so far, but my mother and I need some
helpful advice. It is about her mother, my grandmother,
now 87 years old. My mother is her sole caregiver, and