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Was I the only one watching GA last night...?
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<blockquote data-quote="Martie" data-source="post: 14638" data-attributes="member: 284"><p>Thanks for the link--I watched it on-line.</p><p></p><p>Having a loving, not abusive, mother with Alzheimer's who lived with us for 8 years, I was struck by the unreality of the whole thing. In the entire time my mother was with us--in which she ranged from mildly impaired to your basic vegetable--she never ONCE was her "old self." In the beginning she may have had better or worse days, but she was clearly always impaired to whatever degree was present at the time. I was always dumbfounded when people asked me if she was "lucid at the end?" She hadn't spoken in years--what would she be like--DUH</p><p></p><p>Marc Cherry (the producer who often writes) is gay; when he told his mother she said, "I'd love you even if you were a serial killer." I think that is pretty abusive.</p><p></p><p>tm1--do you mean "saying uncle" rather than "playing uncle?" I know how the term was used when I was a child--it meant that in order to get someone to stop doing something painful, one had to "say uncle." I risk starting a Whew/Phew discussion (for old timers) but I was wondering if anyone knew the origin of 'saying uncle" or if "playing uncle" is something deferent that I don't know about.</p><p></p><p>Martie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Martie, post: 14638, member: 284"] Thanks for the link--I watched it on-line. Having a loving, not abusive, mother with Alzheimer's who lived with us for 8 years, I was struck by the unreality of the whole thing. In the entire time my mother was with us--in which she ranged from mildly impaired to your basic vegetable--she never ONCE was her "old self." In the beginning she may have had better or worse days, but she was clearly always impaired to whatever degree was present at the time. I was always dumbfounded when people asked me if she was "lucid at the end?" She hadn't spoken in years--what would she be like--DUH Marc Cherry (the producer who often writes) is gay; when he told his mother she said, "I'd love you even if you were a serial killer." I think that is pretty abusive. tm1--do you mean "saying uncle" rather than "playing uncle?" I know how the term was used when I was a child--it meant that in order to get someone to stop doing something painful, one had to "say uncle." I risk starting a Whew/Phew discussion (for old timers) but I was wondering if anyone knew the origin of 'saying uncle" or if "playing uncle" is something deferent that I don't know about. Martie [/QUOTE]
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