Lexington, KY

We left Cocoa Beach on Tuesday.
That was hard! We'd had such a good
time and now were headed to Durham ,NC
to visit Robert's sister,Pat and her
husband, Thomas. They live in a
retirement village which we find
depressing.

We arrive there about 11 AM on
Wednesday. Thomas has Alzheimer's
and is much worse than he was a
year ago. He has no idea who we
are although we tell him often.
At one point he gets really upset
and starts to leave "since you
seem to have a new man". We tell
him again that Robert is Pat's
brother and he settles down for
a while.

The bomb shell that Pat dropped is that
she has Parkinson's. The disease
manifests in different ways. With
her it has caused her to lose much
mental ability. She can't even balance
her check book. Robert visited their
accountant and made arrangements for
him to take over all of Thomas' finances
and be ready to handle Pat's. She has
a friend helping her, at this time.

It was a tough visit for Robert and
so short it was hard to do more than
meet the accountant and be as reassuring
as we could. I'm glad they are in the
retirement facility.