Originally Posted by EmmaG
Thank you, Kathy. My mother died in 1998. She had had a memory disorder akin to Alzheimers for about 10 years. It was very difficult. She grew up a poor farm girl in southeast Alabama, and I fondly remember her saying "It's all over but the shoutin'". Do you know that saying?

EmmaG

Indeed I do know that expression. In fact an author I admire, Rick Bragg, wrote a book about his mother with that very title. It is a story of his mother growing up poor on the Alabama/Georgia line. You might appreciate reading it in your down time.

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George Will recently went through an experience with a loved one who had memory loss. He said the important thing is to remember the person as they were when they were strong in our minds, not as they were at the end of their lives. My mother was strong in my mind until the moment she died. So that's how I remember her.
We southern women often are (pardon the cliche') Steel Magnolias. I'm betting your mother was too.

Kathy


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