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I'm looking for some wisdom. My mom is 75. I'm only child. I'm very close to my parents,

and I love them dearly. For the last few years, my mom has been dealing with the memory loss.

There's no diagnosis. I've probably seen it longer than my dad will admit that we've seen

the signs, but now it's very, very noticeable. Okay, memory of the last five minutes, memories

of yesterday, memories of names of books, or what is it? What is her memory problem?

Past memories are very strong. She seems to really focus on when she was a younger girl in a teenager.

In current conversations, she gets lost. She loses the words she's looking for.

She almost just checks out of conversations and just nods and she knows. She knows that it's

happening, and so she kind of fakes it, which I understand. It definitely makes communicating and

engaging difficult. You can't really carry on any kind of significant conversation anymore.

I think I'm resentful that I'm losing my mom. I feel like I've been mourning that for a year or so.

Just because she used to be close, she was somebody I would call for advice or just talk about our days.

I am resentful that I think even though I talk to both my parents, I talk to my dad for a few years,

that no steps were taken. There was no opportunity to try to intervene to slow the process or do

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