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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am loving spending time with my kids at 11 and 14. I am starting to hope that maybe we will get through the teenage years ok.

The aging/dying parent thing can be tough though, no doubt.[/quote]

I don't mean to scare you and not everybody goes through this. Yes, the aging part was hard. What was harder was the personality changes and personality exaggerations. Low grade anxiety with dementia turned into extreme obsessiveness and agitation. A parent I was close to became a verbally abusive tyrant to me constantly trying to start drama. I was burning out helping only to find not only was what i did not appreciated, it was never enough. In the end for some of us we have a person who for the finally year was raging at us, who no longer knows who we are and at the very end is unable to use the bathroom or feed or even talk independently. When the end came I was relieved the person was resting in peace and there is this calm where slowly you realize the emergency calls, the drama, the heartache, the endless anxiety are all over. I am sure some people will be horrified, but if you have to watch a parent's personality change for the worst, lose all memories of loved ones and suffer, death is not the hard part, especially if it has been a 6 or 7 year decline.[/quote]

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