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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (51681)	6/20/2002 7:14:10 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

i have good memories of my mother from "before, during, and even after" her illness. no matter how debiiatated she became, she was still "katie" inside...sometimes you would only get a glimpse of that person, but you knew she was still there.. what helped me was to separate the person from the illness so that i could detach myself from the ravages of the disease and still see the woman inside. diseases of of the brain are particularly hard for people to cope with unlike cancer or heart disease...so much of who that person "is" is tied up inside those brain cells....and when they become diseased or distorted the person you know sort of "disappears"....but not entirely. so it's up to you to look deep and find ways to communicate...it's sort of like looking at a image that gets a bit more faded each time you see it....it's still there, but the details and definition are deteriorating. but always the image in your head is of what used to be, so there is a constant struggle of reconciliation inside of your mind wrt what is and what was. ultimately, you just start to appreciate what remains.