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It's Sunday 05/31/2026. Hey, What's Going On! (lemmy.world)
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I learned my mother had Alzheimer's yesterday. Going to be visiting her with my brother today.

But on positive side of things I managed to take a picture with all seven of our babies.

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[-] ergoplato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

It sucks and I’m sorry that you’re dealing with that. My grandparents had it and that was extremely rough. My wife, kids, and I live with my parents and my Mom has early signs (those were her parents I referenced) and my Dad, though he passes the doctor’s memory tests, seems to be having a type of dementia happening. His doctor sees the same troubling symptoms we do but doesn’t know what else to do short of a battery of neurological testing (which my Dad is bafflingly against). Hard seeing the changes from day-to-day.

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