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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parent buys 1000s of dollars worth of fake supplements to “improve memory”. 
When they arrive, he doesn’t remember buying them. When I ask why he bought them, he can’t remember. 
Sigh.[/quote]

Time to take away access to credit cards [/quote]

When my dad was in the middle stages of Lewy body dementia (he is late stage hospice now) he bought a lifetime LinkedIn subscription. Exactly what someone long retired in their 70s with dementia needs! [/quote]

What an awful and heartless criticism to spew at a man who was in dementia.

I guess you're pissed because that is a couple of hundred bucks that YOU won't be getting when he dies. [/quote]

What???? I’m the one who posted that. It was a lighthearted comment not a criticism.  You will not survive a parents journey with dementia if you don’t laugh about it. Trust me.

Unclench please. [/quote]

Been there, done that. Once they've died you will look at their disease (and jokes about it) differently. [/quote]

DP.  Plenty of people use humor to cope.  Even people who work in hospitals and are around sick and dying people all day.  It's a very normal reaction to stress.[/quote]

Daughter here again I’m actually a nurse and I worked in a long-term care the first decade of my career so I’ve been with at least 30 people as they passed away and dark humor is def one of my crutches. I feel confident I will not feel differently and I feel confident that my dad who could make a joke about anything also, would appreciate my jokes (though that was BARELY a joke) [/quote]

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