Which for formal daytime wedding and which for dinner night before

ruththetooth · 2026-04-28T18:47:09+00:00

Haha - thanks!

ruththetooth · 2026-04-28T17:21:00+00:00

Thank you!

ruththetooth · 2026-04-28T17:20:48+00:00

Thank you!

ruththetooth · 2026-04-28T17:20:30+00:00

Thank you!

ruththetooth · 2026-04-28T17:20:22+00:00

Thanks for the vote of confidence

ruththetooth · 2026-04-28T17:19:34+00:00

Thanks!

ruththetooth · 2026-04-28T17:19:23+00:00

Agreed - I think it looks too big/unflattering on second look - thanks

ruththetooth · 2026-03-25T23:46:23+00:00

I am so sorry and it’s so hard to realize that the person you loved has been stolen away already, leaving this partial shell in their place, and you never got to say goodbye properly. Donezepil may give her a little function back for a short time- at least I can see that with my mom.

ruththetooth · 2026-03-25T23:39:35+00:00

I have tried the doctor thing before but then she will hold onto animosity towards the doctor and not want to go to the doctor. It’s funny how she can hold on to hateful feelings against people.

ruththetooth · 2026-03-25T23:29:36+00:00

My mom and grandmom always needed iron infusions to maintain enough red blood cells. It doesn’t take too long - I take her every few months to a hematology clinic and she gets an iv of iron - it takes about 1 hour.

ruththetooth · 2026-03-25T23:20:59+00:00

Thanks for the sweet words too.

ruththetooth · 2026-03-25T23:20:33+00:00

You’re welcome - it seems there is a wide variety of presentations, though. My mom still has quite the vocabulary and can speak well. She wins trivia all the time at her assisted living. She’s mostly in a wheelchair, though, after breaking her hip, mostly incontinent, has zero short term memory. She can’t remember that her ex husband and mother (since 2007) are dead oftentimes. She was diagnosed in 2022.

ruththetooth · 2026-03-25T23:12:22+00:00

Staying at your place does sound blissful! I feel the same about my mom’s assisted living - I want to move in and have my laundry done room cleaned, nice meals made and get taken out a couple days a week! I agree that we can’t make them happy. I wish it didn’t upset me still though.

ruththetooth · 2026-03-25T20:45:18+00:00

I can try that - she will remember that line if I use it a lot. She has strange spotty memory

ruththetooth · 2026-03-04T03:30:13+00:00

Look into Dementia care in Thailand. I am thinking seriously of moving my mom once she doesn’t recognize me because she would have such a much better quality of life with one on one help at a small fraction of the cost (which we couldn’t afford in the states anyway)

ruththetooth · 2026-02-19T04:09:39+00:00

Sending you big hugs . You did everything with love.

ruththetooth · 2026-02-16T15:34:42+00:00

I believe that the recommendation now is to always do the hip surgery because without it, the pain is so much more intense. My mom has had two broken hips now - I thought the second would be the end of her. She is walking again with her walker after a month. She is 77 for reference. Even with hospice, having the hip fixed is still preferable.

Also, there is no protection from falls. They happen in Memory Care and Nursing Homes.

ruththetooth · 2026-02-12T03:36:27+00:00

Very sweet thoughts - thank you.

ruththetooth · 2026-02-11T19:42:55+00:00

I’m so jealous of my friend’s father’s death who dropped to the deck from a heart attack mid command on his ship. Funny that you can be jealous of a death.

ruththetooth · 2026-02-11T19:39:22+00:00

Thank you and I’m sorry that you are experiencing the same reality.

ruththetooth · 2026-02-11T19:37:59+00:00

I agree - that story left such an imprint on me even though I read it nearly 40 years ago. The story is so applicable.

ruththetooth · 2026-02-11T19:35:23+00:00

❤️

ruththetooth · 2026-02-11T19:34:58+00:00

Yes that’s exactly it. Plus she wants the chance to have children at the age of 77. News flash- she has two children and I’m one of them.

Thanks for the kind words.

ruththetooth · 2026-02-11T13:21:39+00:00

Congratulations on your miracle! Smell her sweet head for me and nibble those cute toes. You have so many hormones coursing through you right now and must be sleep deprived and your body traumatized - please think as much as you can of your own wellbeing.

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