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[quote=Anonymous]My mom was like this until I put her in memory care. No amount of time spent with her was enough, she couldn’t understand why I couldn’t quit my job to be with her all the time. In retrospect I think she was somewhat cognizant of the changes she was going through and I think she was terrified so she clung to the only person she had left, me. She was so incredibly selfish for about two years and I let my own health suffer. She came before anyone else in my life. She had three hospitalizations in six weeks. I moved her to memory care in January and it has been such a blessing for us both. She’s found her people. I think she finally feels safe so she’s way less focused on me. I can return to being her daughter and not her unappreciated and uncompensated caregiver. They take weekly field trips so she no longer insists I take her everywhere (taking her anywhere these days is incredibly difficult, there’s no way to know how she’ll behave in public). [/quote]
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