Re: Venting!

My grandmother too. She was sharp as a tack basically until she passed away
at age 84 4 years ago, but she wanted attention too, even though my parents
had lived right across the yard from her for ever and ever...she would call
over there and tell them to move the camper, move the whatever, I can't see
your front door...lol. Anyway, she wanted us to think she was crazy I think
because no doctor could find a thing wrong with her mentally, but she would
talk about seeing things on a cable channel (never had anything but 3, 6,
and 12) that we would be talking about just to get in on confabs....told us
she saw a woman in an evening gown cutting someone's hair in front yard.
Soon as you'd get there to see if she was okay....sharp as ever and just
wanting to talk.

Dani

"Blupencl" <Blupencl.1s72pm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Bless her heart.
>
> Getting old and staying mentally graceful is so hard. My poor
> grandmother
> said and did things in the three very difficult years before her death
> that no one would ever have expected her to say and do.
>
> (In a rather blonde move, I had e-mailed this reply to
> 'support@scribera' (support@scribera). DUH. They were kind enough to
> send it back).
>
>
> kathycarp Wrote:
>> Yeah. We had a Medic Alert thing for my mom when she was still in her
>> own
>> home. She fell, laid there, wouldn't push the button. So we put her
>> into an
>> assisted living place, and they have pull cords, one in the bedroom,
>> and one
>> by her bed (it was a studio). She fell again and didn't pull the cord.
>> Neighbors stopped by the next day and she was a mess. That's when she
>> came
>> to live with me. She wasn't in the least bit manipulative. She just was
>> losing her faculties, and truly didn't know what to do. She was diet
>> controlled diabetic, and she would buy candy from the (stupid) vendors
>> who
>> would come around, and she would eat candy all night. Then she'd have
>> problems.
>>
>> --
>> Kathy
>> 'www.ambergriscaye.com/villadelsol'
>> (http://www.ambergriscaye.com/villadelsol)
>> "Blupencl" <BLUPENCL.1S6V5B@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote in message
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>> >
>> > (I think I pretty well mangled the quote on this one) I kept my Meema
>> > in one of those Lifeline things for several years. When she fell and
>> > couldn't get up, she was on the carport and the Lifeline was hanging
>> on
>> > the bedpost. Sigh.
>> >
>> > Does she have one of those medic alert lifeline devices a person can
>> > wear and press the button when they are in trouble? Sounds like she
>> > would be an ideal candidate for one of them.
>> >
>> > Barb
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Blupencl
>
>
> --
> Blupencl


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