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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 10:35 PM
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15. Sorry about your dad.
Edited on Wed Dec-22-04 10:37 PM by ocelot
We just went through something sort of like this with my mother. But the big difference is that she was 84 and was already in rather poor health. Last May she got quite sick, went into the hospital, and was never the same after that. She was hospitalized several more times, was in and out of nursing home care, on all kinds of meds, and she got more and more confused and sick. Finally it just got to be too much for her, and she passed away a couple of days ago. They said it was a sort of accelerated progressive dementia, not Alzheimers, which usually worsens very slowly. We are still rather baffled by it since it came on rather quickly and unexpectedly. But since your father is much younger, it may not be anything like that at all, and if his health is otherwise good he might get better. It could even be a drug reaction. Good luck; I hope he will be OK.
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