Well, being able to share my joy with the friends I have made here in the forum has meant so much to me. I have no friends or outside people to truly share with so the folks here mean a lot to me. Sharing this happy time has however given me a small case of guilt because so many of them have the same family pain I had with my daughter. I hope my story has given them hope rather than caused them any pain.

Herc,

Yes some of us here have had, or are going through the same thing that you have been through with your daughter. It's nice that you can think about us at this time, but IMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU have every right to be happy, excited and screaming with joy.

As I am one of those people......ENJOY this new found happiness. You deserve it Herc...

Many many hugs.....

Herc,

Enjoy this moment, enjoy your family.

Lisa

The response from you guys means so very much to me! Consider this a very big THANK YOU CARD.

Good morning to myself. I wish me a good day and relief from the headache I've had since the 23rd of November. That is the day my daughter came back into my life.

I am going to have a good day, a day full of positive input and happy thoughts and lots of smiles and fun.

Well guys, things may have taken a turn in my life I am not to sure about. While I have always made a joke to my mom that we would know if she had alzheimers when she put her undies on outside of her clothes, an incident occurred yesterday that really threw me for a loop. She got extremely aggitated over something she could not find. It is something she has not had in a while and when I suggested that maybe we just got rid of it when we were going through the "packing purge" She lost it. Well, that's not what happened she says. "I would not do that" "Why would I get rid of it". "What did YOU do with it". "I need it" "Where it is." "It is in this bag bc I saw it just yesterday and I want it."

This scared me. It is very much out of character for her. She has been going through her old snapshot and expressed the fact that she was home sick. When I asked her home sick for where, she replied her old place. This is the first time she has expressed any thing like this. It has been about 4 months since the move and we had to purge her life of the majority of her belongings. I am just wondering if that reality has finally sunk in.

We see her doc in January and I will be telling him about this for sure! It sure looked like some of the anger outbursts I've seen on TV shows about alzheimers. Now I just have to not let this freak me out untill the. Just need to file this away in that never mind file I have in my head.

Anyway, self, spend the day watching 2 football games with Mom and enjoy every minute of it and TRY TRY TRY not to argue with her or correct anything her says.

Today is the day after christmas and things have settled down. As I reflect on this past year, quite a lot has changed in my life. As a person who does not handle changes were well, I am actually very proud of myself for the way I HAVE managed to deal with everything.
1) had to euthanize one of my beloved cats
2) moved into a new townhouse-rental--!
3) mother moved in to live with me
4) my world was divided in half with little to no privacy
5) my next cat became extremely ill and is on heart medication
6) MY daughter came back into my life
7) I became a Grandmother

Quite a list for someone who can not handle changes! I have actually done very well and as I look at my list I see that as things and tragities go, I was very lucky this year

I have my health and Mother has hers' too! We have been blessed over 2007 with a few bumps in the road to remind us of how lucky we really are.

Diarry, I hope 2008 will be filled with the same. I wish "ME" a happy New Year! ! !

I do however, have 1 very big wish PLEASE let me see my new grandbaby while she is an infant! Mother and I need to see an infant---not a toddler---an infant. Mother especially needs that. She has only 2 grandchildren and never saw either one of them untill they were walking.

This baby , the ONLY Great Grand Baby, needs to be seen and held NOW by her great grandma.

Grama-Herc.....I wish you only the best for 2008. I hope you get to see your grandbaby. There is also a new medication out to slow the progression of alzheimers.....I forget the name of it right now but I know there are meds to help. Take good care of yourself.

I remembered it......aricept. I know my grandmother takes it.

Yes and there is also the drug Namenda for memory problems too.

Sorry I haven't responded to many of your post, just too depressed, and now sick with a cold.

Enjoy the new baby and 2008.