Comments on: The Long Goodbye https://www.marshmallowranch.com/the-long-goodbye/ She traded her tiara for wings and a pickup Fri, 17 Nov 2017 14:37:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Kay https://www.marshmallowranch.com/the-long-goodbye/#comment-3432 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 14:37:42 +0000 http://www.marshmallowranch.com/?p=2014#comment-3432 In reply to Ginny McKinney.

Thank you – visiting was the one thing I had control of; I don’t regret it.

]]> By: Ginny McKinney https://www.marshmallowranch.com/the-long-goodbye/#comment-3429 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:16:21 +0000 http://www.marshmallowranch.com/?p=2014#comment-3429 In reply to Sally.

❤️

]]> By: Ginny McKinney https://www.marshmallowranch.com/the-long-goodbye/#comment-3428 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:16:00 +0000 http://www.marshmallowranch.com/?p=2014#comment-3428 In reply to Kay.

Oh, Kay…I’m so glad you kept going to see your dad. You’ll never regret that. ❤️

]]> By: Sally https://www.marshmallowranch.com/the-long-goodbye/#comment-3426 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 04:52:08 +0000 http://www.marshmallowranch.com/?p=2014#comment-3426 In reply to Kay.

Oh, that’s heartbreaking. But what a beautiful memory of his last words to you. My grandma didn’t know who I was right before she died, but it was okay. I knew who she was. My mom also was having problems but she still knew who people were, but her health pushed her death forward. Too many complications. God bless your memories…

]]> By: Ginny McKinney https://www.marshmallowranch.com/the-long-goodbye/#comment-3422 Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:21:18 +0000 http://www.marshmallowranch.com/?p=2014#comment-3422 In reply to Mary Ann Simpson.

❤️

]]> By: Ginny McKinney https://www.marshmallowranch.com/the-long-goodbye/#comment-3421 Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:21:10 +0000 http://www.marshmallowranch.com/?p=2014#comment-3421 In reply to Kay.

❤️

]]> By: Mary Ann Simpson https://www.marshmallowranch.com/the-long-goodbye/#comment-3419 Thu, 16 Nov 2017 18:53:12 +0000 http://www.marshmallowranch.com/?p=2014#comment-3419 Ginny, I am so sorry to hear your friend has dementia. My sweet Mom had Lewys’ Bodies dementia. She had two sisters who also suffered through dementia and Alhzheimers, along with a nephew. It is a frightening disease and effects everyone in the family as well as those persons you love. It is the one thing I am most afraid of as I age.

Please keep visiting your friend. She may not remember your name or even that you are a friend. But she will know you are kind and care about her. So many with dementia are just set aside because they don’t remember people. It always broke my heart to see those patients who never had visitors.

Even when my Mom couldn’t remember my name or that I was her daughter, she told me once “I can’t remember your name but I like you”. ❤?❤

]]> By: Kay https://www.marshmallowranch.com/the-long-goodbye/#comment-3412 Wed, 15 Nov 2017 16:28:59 +0000 http://www.marshmallowranch.com/?p=2014#comment-3412 I’m sorry about your friend. God’ s peace be with you, your friend and her family.

My dad had Alzheimer’s and passed away in a nursing home last year. It was so painful to watch; I believe it also depressed him. He forgot my name; but he always seemed to recognize me. Even at the end. The last thing he said to me was ‘you are wonderful’. People, including my mother and sister stopped going to visit him because they didn’t think he knew them anymore. I knew him. I never stopped visiting. I miss him still.

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