more on Mom

I guess that the hardest aspect of taking care of your mom (or elders) is the lack of your own life...I feel that my every waking moment is used for doctors, dentists, lung rehab exercises (3 times weekly) and just keeping her company and making sure that she is okay...with dementia the mind plays tricks on you...you may have dillusions and hallucinations...you lose you ability to remember anything short term...so therefore...you love in the past and sometimes the past gets very confused with the future...everything is just a mishmash of thoughts...we play Skip-Bo a card game for hours...but she is beginning to have trouble with this...it is a general decline that you must witness...and it is very sad.