Get Ready To Pay $60,000 Per Annum For Relative's Long Term Care.

[NickB79]

75. My 88-yr old grandmother had to enter a nursing home last year because of dementia

She was still living on the family farm alone, going into the basement several times a day to stoke the old wood-burning stove to fend off our Minnesota winters. She's blind in one eye and surrendered her driver's license several years ago. She spilled boiling water on her foot while cooking a few years ago and was scalded so badly she needed a skin graft. Her hoarding intensified, and she started leaving rotten food around the house. God knows if she was actually eating it.

She started to have difficulty remembering people, and thought she still had chores to do. She'd wander out to the barn to help my uncles milk the cows, and slip and fall in the process. She began to believe my grandfather was still alive, just out plowing the fields or baling hay when she couldn't find him. The entire family was convinced one more year there, and we'd find her frozen in a snowback one day.