You really have to keep after some doctors to keep them from just writing off older people. My aunt, who's in her 80s, was mumbling and falling down all the time. Finally, when she broke her arm, an alert doctor ran some tests and discovered she had low tryroid. She's like a different person now.

I am 6'2". The chart in my doctor's office states that as a "large framed" person, I should weigh 185, which seems rather absurd.

Agreed. Although I have seen a guy who is 6'5" 190#, he also looks like one of those drawings of what happens to a person getting stretched out into a noodle as he approaches the event horizon of a black hole. (He is a pitcher, by the way.)

Askye, if your grandmother is as not-really-competent as it seems you are describing, it might be necessary to draw up some kind of legal/medical durable power-of-attorney papers for Aunt to be able to make decisions for Grandmother. Because, if Grandmother really isn't (or soon won't be) capable of making those decisions herself, somebody's got to make them, and paperwork now means less hassle later.

One thing I can be sure of is that the media will be talking about it in depth forever and ever, or until they get another story that they think I care about, and don't.

Yeah. I just said to my officemates, "I keep thinking that a verdict will mean the end of this circus."

Then we all laughed.

Especially if he's convicted, Kristen. Because then there's the appeal....

I love the little chart CNN.com has with the radio buttons for each offense.

I was just talking about that in IM!

CNN has a little diagram of the counts with a key! Red for guilty. Green for not guilty. Yellow for hung jury

It would seem the justice system is a lot like a traffic light.

Also, the verdict has been pushed back 15 minutes. Did the networks need more time to promo?

I think they needed more time for MJ to get to the courthouse. Seems like he just got there.

Also, I haven't followed this trial at all yet for some reason, I can't wait to find out the verdict.

I think they needed more time for MJ to get to the courthouse. Seems like he just got there.

I'm watching a convoy of black SUVs. I'm guessing Michael is in one of them.

But I have no sound.

The guy with the long white hair is Jackson's attorney, right?

Ally of my knowledge about the trial was acquired from the entertainment headlines at pop3now. I think it was more fun that way.

I look at pictures of me in high school and I have a great body! (bad hair and questionable fashion choices). And I was so sure I was fat.

askye is me. I wasted all those thin years raging against my imaginary fatness (I was 135lbs).

I'm quite overweight, but my doctor has three chins. He gets away with saying, "Some of these problems will go away if you lose weight," but anything tending towards sermonizing gets him a pointed look at his waistline

This is how DH choses his doctors. He looks for an overweight GP so that they can't bitch about his weight.

health-ma to Matt's dad.

coping-ma for Gandalfe.

askye--it took four years for my FiL to get his mom to agree to go into an assisted living apartment. She'd agree at one point and then back out. Cindy's advice is VERY good. And, even if she continues the back-and-forth, it's best to just start the process, and get all the necessary paperwork and financial arrangements done, anyway. Then it's a matter of picking a day when she's amenable and moving her in. Good luck to your family. I know it's difficult--physically and emotionally draining on everyone.