Our police emergency workers, and even bus drivers are trained (and usually experienced) in dealing with the victims.

Recently, a city bus driver I know had a woman get on the bus and asked to go to New York. They wound up getting the woman’s address from her purse and actually took her to her house (with dispatch’s permission) on the city bus, with full support of all the other passengers. (Much to the joy of her panicked care giver!)

We not only have “Amber alerts” here, we have the same thing for lost Alzheimer’s people it is so common. I think they are called something like “Silver Alerts”.

With that amount of familiarity with the disease there was a lively debate within the health care community here about how far gone Saint Ronny was while still President. There were many many signs that it affected much if his second term. I don’t remember the technical points, but it was interesting coming from people that worked with the disease 40+ hours a week.

I agree with your prediction: the Right will fight harder over who will replace her than it will against Sotomayor’s nomination to the Sup. Ct. Anyone appointed to her slot may tip the balance of power in this circuit and be a possible future Sup. Ct. nominee.

I applaud this judge’s decision to step down in the face of a heart wrenching diagnosis. She preserves her opinions against challenge owing to her condition, and legitimately can say that she now needs to spend more time on herself and with her family. It was the correct decision to make.

And why do so many care facilities not allow married couples to be together? Hopefully that has changed somewhat since I became aware of that practice.

I recently lost my MIL who had dementia for many years. So hard to watch someone disappear before your eyes. And so terrifying for her. It was a relief when she got to the stage of not remembering at all, because her anxiety and anger went away. She was very content her last few years, at least.

For the 4th, it will be a battle. Judges are always the battlefield and the 4th is bloody – so many defense contractor interests and other third party interests with megawatt power.

They were married for 60 years but lived the last 5 in separate wings of a hospital. We brought them together for their 60th, but they just stared at each other. Both got a tear. Grandpa said “I know you” over and over again to my Granny. My Granny just got so frustrated with the fact that half of her body and part of her brain would not work that it made her angry to see him. She said “I’ve had enough of him now”.

It was so sad. They had one of those marriages that many people envied. He was more than a successful doctor, teacher and researcher. She was a math teacher, basket ball coach and wife. Beautiful people both of them. It taught me a lot about love.

I learned that love is not about avoiding pain, but being willing to face it!

Great post…hard disease…but as with everything on this earth, we can learn and grow from our experiences with these diseases.

Bmaz“Obama will go out of his way to appoint worthless moderate schlubs.” Or with the way things are going line up with the Bush administration kind of choices

I also had never heard of Karen Williams but salute her and hope that she and her family can pack many good times into what time they have left together. It’s been such a long time since I’ve seen someone place the law above personal ambition that this story really hit me hard. We’ve lost so much in the 35 years since Ford pardoned Nixon and started the cascade of lawlessness.