Monthly Archives: May 2012
The Home
The nursing home… I must have told 100 people in the last few weeks that my mother lived in a nursing home. People at the hospital kept asking me where she lived and I answered their questions and filled out their forms obediently. However, I kept feeling the need to […]
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My mother died… For the last few weeks I practiced saying those words so I could prepare. I suppose I knew it was coming and now it has been a week. I am sitting in the kitchen among the cookie crumbs and stale bagels eating whitefish salad that probably […]
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I wrote about a week ago regarding a rapid and unwanted descent into dementia and Alzheimer’s. However, today, I write about waiting for the phone to ring. In the past week, circumstances led us to the emergency room and eventually to ICU. My healthy mom who not more than a […]
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