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6217. wabbit - 7/21/2004 3:35:31 AM Not NYC, I'm just going back to my little house in the Catskills. I miss it out there. Spunky will still be working in MA so we'll be doing a lot of driving, but the cats will be thrilled to be back in NY. I miss NYC too, though, been away too long.
I'm at viwabbit@yahoo.com, among others -- if you have something different from a couple years ago, it probably still works. 6218. msgreer - 7/21/2004 3:37:59 AM Now the Catskills is an entirely different matter. You will enjoy the peace and the beauty. Just think... Hillary becomes your junior senator! Wrong thread. Sorry. I will update my address book. Thanks. Good luck with the move. 6219. judithathome - 7/21/2004 3:38:33 AM Hi, MsGreer...good to see you again! 6220. msgreer - 7/21/2004 3:41:36 AM Good to see you too, Judith. 6221. msgreer - 7/21/2004 3:46:21 AM What's new with you Judith? You hurt your knee or leg? 6222. wonkers2 - 7/21/2004 3:54:31 AM MSG, Thanks for the comment! Good to hear from you. If my poor memory is correct you were in Ann Arbor three years or so back. Are you still there? As I recall JJ Biener told me that on the occasion of a visit to Detroit. Wonder what he's doing. He was a relianble GOP poster which currently in short supply in this forum. Regards. 6223. msgreer - 7/21/2004 3:59:52 AM Oh I have been in and out of Ann Arbor and very busy. As for those who would be apart of the GOP..well I just can't even talk to them about the election in a civil manner. We need this election to be over. I expect any Floria resident whose vote does not get counted to take to the streets! Again using the wrong thread but wanted to reply. 6224. msgreer - 7/21/2004 4:00:51 AM correction: Florida 6225. wonkers2 - 7/21/2004 4:03:41 AM Amen! If you ever get over toward Birmingham email me at r-tdeeds@ix.netcom.com. My wife and I would be pleased to have you drop in. Nobody from the Mote ever comes to our neck of the woods. 6226. msgreer - 7/21/2004 4:07:08 AM I will do that wonkers. I may be back in Ann Arbor this December or earlier if my request for tickets to the Big House come through. I will get in touch with you when I am in town. 6227. wonkers2 - 7/21/2004 4:21:08 AM Good! 6228. msgreer - 7/21/2004 4:29:27 AM Very good! 6229. thoughtful - 7/21/2004 5:26:47 AM still not all dementias are alzheimers. My mother in law has had dementia for years and years. We're not sure, but we think it's related to the arteriosclerosis and/or hemorrhaging/scarring that occurs because of her pxe. Then again, her brother and sister also got dementia and both were in nursing homes before they died but neither of them had pxe. But what they had is different from the alzheimer's my 2 aunts have that included significant personality changes, emotional lability, the need for constant supervision, night time wanderings, insistence on going home when they are home, etc. 6230. wonkers2 - 7/21/2004 7:47:32 AM Sounds familiar. I believe Levine said absolutely positive diagnosis requires an autopsy. My mother-in-law and my mother both had alzheimer's or dementia in the last couple of years before they died in their late 80s. Difficult for them and those around them. My mother-in-law was hard to get along with to begin with, and toward the end became a total bitch--calling the police on her care givers, locking them out, wandering around the neighborhood in her nightgown at night, etc. 6231. arkymalarky - 7/21/2004 10:06:52 AM Very informative post, MsGreer! PLEASE stick around!
Thoughtful,
Sounds like my grandmother, which they diagnosed as mini-strokes. She could be very contentious and hard to handle, too. Her physical strength outlasted her mental by quite a few years.
Bro delivered a really good eulogy at her funeral at which he described an instance in the nursing home where he inadvertantly crossed her while trying to persuade her to stay there when he left. He doesn't live here, and he didn't realize when we tried to tell him how bad she was until that day. According to him, he "heard words a guy should never hear from his grandmother." 6232. wonkers2 - 7/21/2004 11:44:44 AM The implications Alzheimer's for health care due to growing numbers of people living into their 80s and 90s is staggering from a cost and social standpoint. Are we curing cancer, heart disease only to permit 5-10 years of Alzheimers? Medicine needs to develop along the lines of the "wonderful one-horse shay" where everything works great until the day when everything falls apart at once. 6233. wonkers2 - 7/21/2004 11:46:55 AM Better mechanisms are needed to allow people to control how long they live in old age. The Oregon law is a good start but doesn't go nearly far enough in my opinion. 6234. wonkers2 - 7/21/2004 11:50:20 AM We shouldn't have to put a gun to our head or run our car off a cliff. Which many would are not capable of doing when the time comes. We need a reliable version of the Eskimo tradition for the aged and infirm. 6235. thoughtful - 7/21/2004 9:40:33 PM Of course, old age is no guarantee of alzheimers, to wit my husband's grandmother who made it to 106. I think she willed herself to die. She had contracted pneumonia and actually recovered from it. I think she was hoping that would end it, but when it didn't, she just stopped living a few months later. She was quite sentient up to the very end. I think it was hard on her outliving her oldest son who died when he was 82. (We now think he died of undiagnosed lyme disease.) But she told me of being a young girl and having to take care of her grandfather who was 103...clearly long life ran in her side of the family. 6236. arkymalarky - 7/22/2004 2:27:18 AM I have a friend/colleague whose father is over 100 and was featured in the state paper after his 100th birthday. He's still very active. I got an op-ed piece published in the same paper some time ago on this ed reform stuff and he called to talk to me about it. No one would come near guessing his age over the phone. He's a Ham radio operator and loves computers and he still keeps a daily routine and regimen which begins with the paper's crossword puzzle, followed by emails, etc. My grandmother, on the other hand, at 88 years of age, lived several years beyond what was happy and comfortable for her, though she did get better emotionally, if not mentally, in the last two or three years.
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