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Bringing Mom Home
My sister and I ditch the Memory Care unit and battle Alzheimer’s under one roof
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Does Your Mom Remember You?
Mom is coming through the front door with her arms full of boxes of fat red strawberries. The children are jubilant. “They had a sale at…
Ruthie Baumgartner
May 10, 2015
Miss Congeniality
Mom and I are watching “Snowmen” while I feed her dinner. “Get over here,” she demands, as I stand by the bed with my plate of food. “Let…
Ruthie Baumgartner
Apr 7, 2015
Wasting
This week will mark fifteen months since we all moved in together and brought Mom home. It’s been almost five months since I have posted…
Ruthie Baumgartner
Apr 5, 2015
Feeding Mom
The caregiver arrives late-ish on Saturday, so Claire and I tag team the morning routine. I see Claire coming out of Mom’s room and ask,…
Ruthie Baumgartner
Nov 16, 2014
Hospice Recert
When Colleen came from hospice yesterday to check on Mom for recertification, I was a little worried. Mom’s vitals, as reported weekly by…
Ruthie Baumgartner
Oct 31, 2014
A Good Life
I Can’t Give Mom a Good Life, But I can Bring Chocolate
Ruthie Baumgartner
Oct 26, 2014
A Slice of Alzheimer’s Pie
Stage 7, I think
Ruthie Baumgartner
Oct 8, 2014
“How’s Your Mom?””
I am on the phone with an old friend from NJ, who asks, “How’s your mom?”
Ruthie Baumgartner
Oct 7, 2014
Is Getting Better Than Giving?
An Old Homeless Lady and My Old Bedbound Mom Give Me Pause.
Ruthie Baumgartner
Aug 7, 2014
Living and Dying, Just Like All Of Us
The Illusion of Control
Ruthie Baumgartner
Jul 23, 2014
1966
I Knew Nothing of War
Ruthie Baumgartner
Jul 12, 2014
Love in the Time of Alzheimer’s
Mom Gets Violent
Ruthie Baumgartner
Jul 11, 2014
The Conversational Ball
Now It’s Just Forth and Forth
Ruthie Baumgartner
Jul 9, 2014
Love and Memory
If A Tree Falls in the Alzheimer’s Unit and Nobody Remembers, Did it Really Happen?
Ruthie Baumgartner
Jun 24, 2014
That’s the Disease Talking
No, Wait… It’s Mom
Ruthie Baumgartner
Jun 14, 2014
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming!
Mom is sundowning like crazy, and I am pretty tired of it
Ruthie Baumgartner
Mar 6, 2014
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