With respect,

And remember that I am talking to the disease not my mother who taught the very 1s/t on line class @ Ohio State. And the upcoming Caribbean, South, and Central America military is just crazy.

We have reserved the rights to use Dominican Republic air bases and we are
now having a 24/7 blockade on all Venezuelan oil tankers.

I am talking to her disease and not what she once was.

It's hard enough for the rest of us to deal with.

There was one time the real knowledge of what is going on got through and she looked sad
for a few seconds…. She taught and wrote about biochemistry and clinical Nutrition. She was
fine when I left her about 30 to 40 minutes later.

It is stressful enough to have her illness.
Even if the bad news isn't retained it is still a momentary upset.
Which she doesn't need.

Talk to her about the Bucks going to the National Championship!!!

Occasionally on more complex topics she can go right to the heart of the issue. I try very very very
hard to keep her happy. She liked the clementine orange sections and pieces of cantaloupe on
toothpicks tonight and remembered those exact fruits 1/2 an hour after she ate them and told me
to clean up some dropped toothpicks that fell of her plate as I was moving it.

I am saying consider the topics you bring up.

There is no purpose served giving her very bad political news.
It is very upsetting to the non dementia folks.
And she has a major health problem.

She was very smart and a PhD gives her extra neural pathways to process information.
She can be stimulated in other ways that are not so depressing.

There are a lot of things happening locally in your area you can talk about.

My clinical .02.

… give her information that I thought for a billionth of second would hurt her …. Sometimes reality
is real and I don’t think anything I would tell her would cause stress on her I don’t think she could
handle. She is going fast into a great good night and I try to ease her change. I have a good friend
that does hospice work and I am going to ask her to become part of her care team as per quality of
life issues and I will accept her opinions on what needs to be done.

I am just talking basic brain chemistry.

I am trying to help you and your mom Botony.
Not trying to make you defensive.

that would benefit people.