Hey, everyone, it's Rima. I just wanted to let you all know that we are currently on a break,

but we are working on some things that I'm excited to share with you all. And in the meantime,

I wanted to revisit one of my favorite episodes that we've done on the show. I honestly think

about it pretty often. It's this conversation I had with a listener named Amanda Petterudy,

and she was just so thoughtful and captured a lot of these

universal feelings around grief and money that really resonated with me. And actually, after this

episode originally aired, we heard from a lot of you all about similar experiences and how her story

resonated with you all. So be sure to stick around until the end of the episode.

I'm going to share some of those reflections along with a short update from Amanda.

All right. Here's the episode.

Dementia, in my opinion, takes your worst qualities and just turns them up to 11.

Last year, Amanda Petterudy had to watch her dad suffer from dementia.

It was painful, seeing him become confused, argumentative, no longer the affectionate dad reaching for hugs.

And that's so hard for the people that are left because you don't want to remember,

like the aspects of them that were the most challenging. You want to remember the ones that were

joyful and playful and, yeah, it sucked a whole lot. We tried memory care, but he declined really quickly, and eventually he just passed. So it was a tough. It's really hard. It was a tough year.

Her dad's death brought not just grief, but a to-do list. Her mom made phone calls informing everyone of the news. They organized

awake, filled out paperwork, hunted down important documents. And then Amanda, her mom, and her brother

started going through his stuff, all the many things he'd accumulated over his lifetime.

He definitely kept stuff that was like, what are you doing?

We threw away like the toilet seats that he'd kept for 20 years.

I don't know why.

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