I need to ask you all how you would have responded to a comment I recently
heard from a favorite cousin.  This woman knows my father, and keeps in
touch with him by phone, regular (say every six weeks or so) mail, letters,
and greeting cards, and can be counted on to show up for ...

How common is divorce that is a result of the massive strain of
caregiving? I've been married for 20+ years but the stress of
caregiving for my MIL & *everything* that has gone with it has
seriously put me on the brink of breaking.

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Leaving in a couple of hours to go visit the grandkids.
No emails or computer stuff for the next ten days!
Love to all of you!

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My husband was diagnosed with AD about 1 1/2 years ago.  He was put on
Reminyl and he was doing very well - less irritabiliy, etc.  His Mother had
AD and a half-brother also had AD.
In the past month he has become obsessive about things (or it seems

I've posted how my mother is doing well in assisted living.   Well she's
doing so well that she's gaining weight.   This in itself wouldn't be so bad
but her mother had diabetics and my brother and I are concerned about Mom.
I'm in the process of getting bigger clothes for her.   ...

I think i need some urgent treament, its so bad now, i woke up and all i
could see was pink and yellow........
Well last night i painted one wallk in the living room pink, it was suposed
to be soft light red but i dont think i put enough white in in orange.

At the weekend i bought 13 huge Valentines cards to send to Anett in
Germany, which spells out her whole name and  one letter from ICH LIEBE DICH
and the last one has a message from me, bought her a heart i love you cuddly
toy, candles, smelly stuff, heart shaped sweets and a huge ...

I've joined this group because I'm writing my dissertation about
Alzheimer. I'm trying to find a specific EEG-pattern in the regio
entorhinalis in Alzheimer patients. But I'm in the very beginning of my
studies and try to find out whether the regio entorhinalis has been

For the past several years, I have donated the spare cycles on my home
computer for research -- initially searching for prime numbers, then for
AIDS research, and now for research on human proteome folding used for
medical research on a wide variety of diseases, including ...

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How much money my grandmother has. Why do they need to know that. As long as
I pay the bills a month a head of time why do they care?

Has anyone else noticed a correlation between using the class of drugs known
as beta-blockers (for hypertension) and the onset of alzheimer's-like
symptoms?  In the case of my 85 year-old mother-in-law the effect was
virtually immediate.  Within a day or two of starting the drug, ...

I was visiting Mom today in her assisted living apartment.   She was feeling
a bit chilly so I turned the heat in her apartment a tad.   Meanwhile she
picked up the phone and I heard a voice on the other end and then she hung
up.   I asked who she called and she said the time and ...