I'm so sorry about your loss Jondalar! I still have both of my parents so I cant relate too much. But my grandmother has alheimers(sp) and I feel cheated...I spent a LOT of time with my grandmother when I was younger..mostly because she lived right up the street and i rode my bike there...but now she forgets(even on her meds) and repeats herself and mixes stories up..
like she called me this morning and she TOTALLY forgot that I took her to the bank yesterday and that we went grocery shopping =\ she also thought that when my mom went to the hospital before she went to the rehab that they had to pump her stomach

which they didnt do...