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politicat (8,322 posts) Mon Jun 16, 2014, 08:38 PMNew group! Welcome!Today's adventure in memory loss: My grandmother has been watching Bones on Netflix, all nine seasons. She stated with E1S1 in April. Last week, she finished up season 9, and started a couple other series. Today, I arrive and she's back to Bones. I ask if she decided to start over. "Oh, no, I've just never seen the first season." Ummm. Okay. That gives me a time frame for her persistence of memory -- around 6 weeks. It explains a lot, knowing that. Memory's a funny thing. I suppose the upside is that I've found her comfort TV, like finding the DVD that your Kidlet will watch over and over and over.
NYC_SKP (59,181 posts) Tue Jun 17, 2014, 12:19 AM1. Thank you for proposing this group and making it a reality!Not only do most of us have elderly in our lives who may need help, all of us are aging and may learn a lot in advance of our own being among that population. I'm in my fifties right now and receiving some home care for IV antibiotics, and I assisted my parents over several years until they both passed last years. Thanks so much.
uppityperson (84,919 posts) Tue Jun 17, 2014, 02:22 AM2. thank you for putting this group together
LeftofObama (3,877 posts) Tue Jun 17, 2014, 01:54 PM3. Thank you so much for this group.I'm sure I'll be visiting here frequently.
CTyankee (40,481 posts) Tue Jun 17, 2014, 07:41 PM4. wonderful to have this...it is needed since DU has a real number of folks affected, both forthemselves and their parents.
Habibi (2,957 posts) Tue Jun 17, 2014, 09:01 PM5. Thank you, politicat!I look forward to the exchanges in this group. I am not currently a caregiver, but have had that experience. In my case, it was awful--not the caregiving itself so much, but the "caregivee"--my MIL, who was a narcissistic, horrible woman with an equally horrible family. It ended badly. But it did give me insight into what caregivers must endure--even those who love the people they're caring for. I'm glad your grandmother has found something entertaining to occupy her mind!
my MIL, who was a narcissistic, horrible woman with an equally horrible family