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10:51 am
August 29, 2010


Faith

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I told her.  It was hard and it was scary, but I did it.  "Mom, The doctor says you have Alzheimer's Disease."  I was ready for screaming, crying, a scene of anguish that would last an hour.  She thought about it for a minute.  Then she said, emphatically and firmly, "I don't believe that."  And that was the end of it.  She most likely does not remember the conversation now- but I feel better for having told her.


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9:19 pm
May 4, 2010


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If you are like most of us, you were hard-wired not to lie.   Telling a fib, no matter how trivial, makes you uncomfortable.   Still, you know that sometimes it is kinder to lie. Like when your best friend who weighs 220 pounds expectantly asks if her new outfit makes her look "hot." Or when your cousin asks if you enjoyed that great book on the the migrant patterns of whooping cranes that he gave you at Christmas.   But what about when the lie that will "protect" is not so small or subjective? Caregivers of people with memory loss are confronted …

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