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Skriven 2014-08-17 20:55:14 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 15895 av Nancy Backus (1:18/200.0)
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Hi Nancy,

 RH> Next time we buy cashews, we'll have to get some raw ones and try
 RH> making milk from them. Generally I get the roasted and salted for
 RH> munching.

 NB> Worth a try...  :)

Probably do so after the end of the month since we're not planning any
more major shopping trips until after pay day.

 NB>  NB>> Slipping away.  Inevitable, but hard to watch....

 RH> Slipping away but according to Don, she remembered Steve and I visited
 RH> last month. He hadn't visited in over a month due to working at Boy
 RH> Scout camp and other committments but went up the other day and asked
 RH> if she knew who had visited her in the time he was gone.

 NB> Now that is actually a promising sign... at least that she isn't as
 NB> far gone as it seemed...  She actually is taking more note than is
 NB> obvious, and can retain it...  :)

Yet, if we walked in today and asked her if she knew us, she'd give us a
blank stare (if she were awake). We'd tell her, then as we were going
out, ask if she knew us and probably get the same non answer.

 NB>  NB>> family, if not exactly who... and her concept of her own "age"
 NB> made it  NB>> hard to conceive of the real relationship for her.

 RH> Hard to figure out what her mind was doing then. Sounds like she
 RH> probably thought she was of an age where she didn't have any
 RH> grandchildren.

 NB> That certainly was the case... it had started many years before as she
 NB> was regressing mentally age-wise... first I was the age of her son (my
 NB> dad), then of her cousins, and so forth...

Makes me wonder, if they had lived longer, how my maternal grandparents
would have aged. My grandmother had a series of strokes over 7 years;
her memory was good initially but deteriorated with each stroke. My
grandfather died relatively young (in his 50s) of a cerebral hemmorage.
No chance to see how he would have aged.

 NB> shape than  RH>> Mom but his body is much frailer.
 NB>  NB>> Also very hard to watch....

 RH> Yes, it is. We talked to him the other day for a bit. He'd managed to
 RH> get out for a hair cut & to see Mom but it's harder for him to get up
 RH> there now. Not so much physically, but mentally.

 NB> Maybe if he understood that she is more there than meets the eye, it
 NB> might make it easier for him...  Some of her non-response might be
 NB> stroke-related with the response locked inside herself, rather than
 NB> the dementia causing a true non-response...

It's more dementia, don't know for sure if she's had any strokes. Her
diabetes has been poorly controlled but not as out of control as my
brother's is/was. We see the lunch/dinner menues posted each day at the
facility but don't know which choices Mom makes. The meals are fairly
balanced, a bit heavier on carbs than I think they should be but, it's
not as bad as it could be. Don't know how those on Mom's floor decide
what they're going to eat but there's always a choice of 2 entrees. I
think it's a good guessing on the part of the food service folks.

 RH> The other day I made me a BLT using my bread. Steve made 2, using the
 RH> denser bread.

 NB> The denser bread probably was more filling, too...  :)   I think I'd
 NB> be more likely to save that for other purposes than sandwich making,
 NB> though...  :)  Like dunking in soup, or sopping up juices...  ;)

Mine was filling enough for me. The home made bread is a lot more
filling than the store bought generic, even some of the name brand,
breads. Also, it doesn't take as much to fill me up as it did when I was
younger.

 NB> brother will  NB>> appreciate the help....  I did pass along the
 NB> requests for both
 NB>  NB>> brothers to my church, so there's some support there...  :)

 RH> Thanks. The "shoulda, coulda, wouldas" are beginning to hit Bill now,
 RH> along with the reality of the situation that is, now. At least I know
 RH> he's probably eating better while he's in the hospital. (G)

 NB> Good chance of that... although we all know the variances in hospital
 NB> food...  (G)

Very true there. But, he's probably not eating Hot Pockets, tv dinners,
etc in the hospital. (G)

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Ruth
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