Janny67

@Janny67 (10)

Age 57

Joined myLot 17 years ago

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What's your favorite scene?

tazpromote @tazpromote (965) • United States 21 Nov 07

What's your favorite scene from The Color Purple? Tell me your favs and I will tell you mine!

the color purple

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Janny67 Hi The Color Purple is my all time favourite movie, I watch it when I am feeling sorry for myself to make me feel better cause Celie had such a terrible life. I love a lot of the scenes but my fave is the end when Celie's kids turn up, I always cry at that...

25 Jan 08

Mother's Alzheimers

cookofthehouse @cookofthehouse (26) • United States 27 Mar 07

My mom has Alzheimers and is being cared for in a nursing facility. She wouldn't be happy with me and my loud family and she is getting the best of care. Yet I worry that I am letting her down. I don't think she knows who I am...

who does it hurt more

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Janny67 Please don't feel guilty she is in the best place, I looked after my mum for 18 months when she first got Alzheimers...the reason she went into a care home was because she left all the gas on in the house and when my brother got there she was shouting and...

31 May 07

Have you had a family member with alzheimers

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (160674) • United States 27 Dec 06

I have not. I have worked in care facilities where there were lots of residents with some form of dementia. It can be challenging, but very rewarding. These people live with their own reality, even when they lose touch of ours....

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Janny67 My mum has had it for 12 years and it's heartbreaking watching someone you love fade away infront of your eyes, she is now in the final stages, for the last 2 months the care home have been calling us whenever she got worse and we rushed up there but she would...

31 May 07

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Alzheimers and my Mom

daycarepal @daycarepal (1998) • United States 23 May 07

My mom is in the final stages of Alzheimers Disease. For those of you who have lost a parent to this awful disease, how did you get through the funeral and all the services without falling apart? I'm a very emotional person and...

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Janny67 I am in the same position as you are at the moment love, my mum has had this terrible disease for 12 yrs and is now on Morphine and hasn't eaten for over a week, so I know it will not be long, but I am grateful for that in a way, I know you understand that,...

31 May 07

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