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Carole: This is such great advice! You are so right - we often forget the "real person" within and it's important to keep that person, the one we love, in mind. Bonnie Cunningham NPF -----Original Message----- From: Carole K. Menser [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: September 15, 1999 2:22 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: My grandmother Sarah -- Go to her home and then take her something from home that she really has treasured and cherished over the years and that she might recognize during her more focused times. Make or purchase for her a brightly colored lap robe -- something she will see and use every day. Most of all, bring her the gift of yourself as often as you can go see her. It's all too easy to let that slip sometimes especially when we think the person is sort of out of it and doesn't know who we are or what is going on. Your grandmother's brain and body may be wearing out, but the real person is still inside there -- although sometimes buried very deep within. Be sure to talk to that PERSON and not to the body or the condition that you can see on the outside. Carole :-)