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🗓️ 28 February 2023
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0:00.0 | Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from two to five PM Eastern time on serious XM triumph 11. |
0:11.0 | Natalie, welcome to the program. |
0:14.0 | Hey, Dr. Laura, thanks for taking my calls. This is like my third time calling in and I love to listen to you. |
0:22.0 | Frequent flyer points. Okay. Go ahead. Yeah. So my mom is my mom is young. She's 69. She was a nurse. Her whole life just super smart and best nurse ever and best mom ever. |
0:37.0 | We're we've been best friends the whole life and in the past two years I will year she has diagnosed with Alzheimer's and the progression has been. |
0:48.0 | You know, super hard. I'm the baby and not she's my best friend and so the transition is really difficult and I just wanted to see if you had any advice for me on how to handle her. |
1:02.0 | Just everything the whole situation with as much grace as possible. |
1:08.0 | I think you're already doing that possible. |
1:11.0 | I think you're already doing that. There's no magic here. This is horrible. This is difficult. |
1:20.0 | There's no wonderful way you're not always going to feel sometimes you're going to be impatient and bitchy. Sometimes you're going to be crying. |
1:27.0 | Sometimes you're not going to feel any feelings at all and sometimes you're just going to be copacetic. |
1:32.0 | It's going to be all over the place. So the best advice I could give you is be kind to yourself. This is very hard. |
1:40.0 | Okay. Okay. Thank you for that. I appreciate that. I'll just continue to love her like crazy and hopefully I do the best thing I can. |
1:59.0 | Well, you're not always going to do the best you can. That's what I'm trying to tell you. This is very, very difficult because she's there. She's not there. She's there. She's there in part. She's not there. |
2:08.0 | You start getting impatient. You start really feeling overwhelmed from everything you're having to do. |
2:14.0 | I'm just asking you to look at this less through rose-colored glasses. This is a disgusting thing to happen to a person. |
2:23.0 | I'm just going to be peace by peace. Their mind goes. I can't think of anything worse. |
2:29.0 | Okay. Okay. Thank you. |
2:33.0 | And she's going to be scared and she's going to want to talk about it and you have to sit quietly and listen. |
2:40.0 | Because there's nothing you can say to make her well, who wouldn't? It's terrifying. |
2:48.0 | And there's nothing you can say to make her feel better. So never ask anybody. What can I say when she's like that? |
2:54.0 | You just listen and you hold her hands and you hug her. |
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