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[quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry, OP.
I'm struggling to understand your hopelessness, and hope it's a temporary feeling. I could understand if YOU were diagnosed with an incurable degenerative disease! My mother developed Multiple Sclerosis before I was born, and I've lived with her progressively more debilitating state my entire life. My father is in vascular dementia, like his parents before him. But as other posters have said, your parents are not you.

You have to detach emotionally at all costs. Most people do that work naturally with time, when they see their parents decline. Perhaps you need to work with a therapist, and be evaluated for depression. My late FIL was bipolar, and my husband needed to entirely detach emotionally to take care of him at the end.

Most elderly persons, if they live long enough, will end up with some form of dementia. The rules are: 
1. Make them as comfortable as you can and they accept.
2. There are no good solutions - just less bad ones.
3. Take care of yourself first. [/quote]

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