And it all comes down to me doing something.
A week's vacation with the entire family.
A million instances of Mom losing function.
A few screaming fights between siblings late at night.

http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/Fish_Lipitor-18Jul06.htm
Congressman's widow sues Pfizer over Lipitor effects
excerpts:   " against Pfizer, Inc., charging the drug company with
concealing serious and permanent health risks associated with its

I joined a bereavement group through a hospice program in my city.  My
mother lives in another city thousands of miles away so she is not
receiving any hospice care through the program where I am getting grief
support.

Here are a couple of pictures of our dogs just taken recently.
http://i6.tinypic.com/1zvr30x.jpg
http://tinypic.com/1zvr13o.jpg

http://brandweek.com/bw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002840589&imw=Y
Pfizer Sued Over Lipitor Again
BrandWeek Mon, 17 Jul 2006 2:04 PM PDT
NEW YORK -- Plaintiffs' lawyers are turning up the heat on Pfizer over its

http://www.newyorkbusiness.com/news.cms?id=14183
     Pfizer faces onslaught of lawsuits over Lipitor
     Crain's New York Business Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:41 AM PDT
     More than a dozen personal injury suits were filed against Pfizer Inc.

Yesterday I posted to Julian's thread about his grandfather that my MIL
had been holding her own for sometime now.   About an hour after I
posted, I had a call from her hospice nurse.  Della is 93 and in a SNF.
She had significant changes yesterday.  We had just gotten back from

Mom is not making any progress with physical therapy and so they are
talking about releasing her.
She has returned to sleeping quite a bit and not being alert or aware.
I am just going moment-by-moment, in the next minute things may change,

Dear Friends,
Today we got results (kind of) of the MRA & EEG John had.  At this point
 he will be given a SPECT test & a thyroid test.  The doctor is
checking for Hashimoto's encephalitis among the other things.  John's

My wife, now 58, was diagnosed with AD last year at the age of 57. Although
we had been seeing some memory decline for a year or so prior to the
diagnosis, the thing that triggered us to see a doctor was that she was
suspended from her job as a public school teacher because of ...

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Results clearly indicate the prophylactic action of linseed oil against
cyclophosphamide- induced oxidative stress
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Yes, I know my shoe theory (that shoes cause Alzheimer's disease) is
crazy, wacko, etc.  But hey, all ideas that we take for granted started
out as crazy at one time, right?
Well, unfortunately, my theory keeps getting deleted off the internet

I would like to know how to remember things.

First of all, thanks to the people who emailed me, i will reply to the
emails when i get time, this is a quick note as im off to see my granddad in
20 minutes, i didnt see him at all yesterday.
I saw a Dutch neorosurgeon, who refuses to operate, he says teh risks and

<<snip>>
the polyphenols in these fruits might be acting in different brain
regions
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