I thought I'd share a nice recipe here.  This is my grandmother's recipe for
German style potato salad.  It is always a big favorite, and I had to type
it up for some family members anyway :-)    Enjoy.
Grandma's German Potato Salad

Mom has been in her group home for just three days now.  Apparently she
was pretty good yesterday -- still confused, and pretty heavily drugged,
but seemed to be making friends with other residents, and giving and
getting a lot of hugs.  But today she's back to being angry, and ...

I've learned about my mother that while she says things that make no
sense, there is often some sort of obscure logic in her mind.  For
instance, she's fascinated by her gray hair, because she's sure she's
too young to be gray.  (Hell, I'm 47 and I've been all gray since 40 or

I've been a lurker in this group for awhile now and decided I needed to
introduce myself and hope to get some advice. I can see that this is a
very supportive group and I'm glad I'm now a part of it. This may end
up being very long. I'm sorry to have you read so much but I feel I'm

Today was dad's first try at daycare.  It did not go well.  He got very
agitated, spent an hour going from door to door trying to get out,  wanted
to go home, and refused to participate in any of the activities. He was
upsetting the other patients there on the end of it. They ...

It is so dry in ALABAMA:
The Baptist have started sprinkling,
The Methodist are using a wet wash cloth,
The Presbyterians are giving rain checks and,

My father has been in a rehab facility for the past 9 months after brain
surgery for normal pressure hydrocephalus and advanced Parkinson's. He has
been declining quickly over the last couple of months. The lady who cares
for him at night (in addition to the personel at the ...

My mother has now been moved from Alverado Medical Center in San Diego
to a small group home solely for Alzheimer's patients -- six residents,
with two caregivers round-the-clock, a gerontologist on call who does
housecalls, so no need for going out to doctors, and a hospice ...

Got a new web address now
www.julianhales.co.uk
Popped some pictures up of the damage to my car from the weekend.

I have just finished a book called _The Truth About the Drug
Companies_ by Dr. Marcia Angell, former executive editor of the
New England Journal of Medicine.
This book made me very angry.  What follows may appear to be an

My sister saw our Mom today at the mental hospital.  Mom was having a
brain CAT scan, and she's always been claustrophobic.  Kim had told them
they'd either have to drug her into oblivion, or have someone *very*
reassuring there.  They did have Mom on anxiolytics to the point ...

Just got back from visiting granddad, he was just finnishing his dinner
He looked fine, said he was happy and when i walked in he saw me and smiled
and shouted its my grandson...that made me happy, we then spent some time
outside with the dog but it soon went cool so we went inside, ...

The last few days have been, without a doubt, the most difficult, most
heart-wrenching, most painful of my entire life.  My sister called early
Saturday afternoon, panicked at the notion of having to get Mom into the
lockdown facility by herself.  I told her to hang on, I'd catch ...

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I have just seen him for the first time since he has been in a old peoples
home for a week, its outside of my city.
I took the dog, i spoke to the person in charge who says he has seemed to
settle down, he wont sit still and always tries to do things.