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Lorna, welcome to the program. Hi Dr. Laura thank you for taking my call. I've been a listener

for over 20 years and I want to thank you for the wisdom you sprinkled into my life

and I've been able to implement a lot of your ideas so thank you so much.

I need some help. I have let me start. I've been married for 45 years. One marriage. We're still

married. We have two grown girls, four grandchildren and I have a mother who's 96.

Life has been difficult for her this these past six months and as a result where she was six months

ago the best optimum location for her to live was a boarding care facility where it was small,

very hands-on helping her with all her daily activities. She did have a fall there and she's

recovering from that. She fractured her kneecap. The one thing with the boarding care is that there

are a total of six residents and there's only one person that she really can talk to because the

others are not capable of doing so. She does have a friend who doesn't speak but they communicate

by touch and by it's really sweet and this woman will be moving with her family to either Alaska

or again. So the issue with the boarding care is that she's very well physically taken care of

but there's no mental stimulation. My brother and I try the best we can. We have a physical

therapist coming in on her on her dime or dime because she loves to exercise and that's she's been

she did yoga until she was 90 years old so she's pretty awesome. Yes. The thing is is that she's

she's missing the social companion that an assisted living can provide which I really like

but I worry about her because right now recovering from her fractured knee she's walking and

exercising on her own and she's not supposed to do that yet. So I have either. Can I interject

in here please. She's at the last part of her life she is going to die of something one of these days

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