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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on June 19, 2014, 05:01:59 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/12742
Oh my.
This could get good as soon as Judy grasswire's guardians get on board to discuss their problems with the pie-and-jam primitive.
politicat (8,322 posts) Mon Jun 16, 2014, 08:38 PM
New 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 AM
1. 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 AM
2. thank you for putting this group together
LeftofObama (3,877 posts) Tue Jun 17, 2014, 01:54 PM
3. 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 PM
4. wonderful to have this...it is needed since DU has a real number of folks affected, both for
themselves and their parents.
Habibi (2,957 posts) Tue Jun 17, 2014, 09:01 PM
5. 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!
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Memory is a tricky thing. Liberals can't remember that communism has failed in every country that has tried it.
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my MIL, who was a narcissistic, horrible woman with an equally horrible family
Well Habibi, you're part of her family.
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Too bad the DUmmies didn't have their "eldercare" group a couple of years ago.
They might have persuaded Bennyboy and stewert to let the old folks live.