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Maru Kitteh

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13. But no. I have decades of professional experience with many kinds of dementia.
Tue May 6, 2025, 02:20 PM
May 2025

I have spent the last couple decades working almost exclusively serving geriatric and disabled populations. I’ve administered MMSEs, facilitated medical and lifestyle adaptations to help individuals and families cope, and then help the transition when they need a higher level of care. Been there more times than I ever want to remember for that last dose of morphine.

I DESPERATELY WANT HIM TO HAVE ANY DISEASE THAT WILL TAKE HIM OUT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. I’m not picky! I’ll take ANYTHING and happily add any variety of dementia to the pot.

I just DO NOT SEE IT. I see wishful thinking. I see the normal aging of a man who had nothing to write home about cognitively speaking from the very beginning. I see the normal aging of a man who never cared for learning, who never took exercise, who could pay someone to fix everything, who consumed food most uncarefully and most of all, the normal cognitive aging of the laziest tyrant since . . ever.

I’m holding out hope for a live, massive, on-air stroke that leaves him cognitively intact but drooling, unable to stand and unable to speak in a way that could ever be understood. That is my fondest wish.

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