Consuela, my mom had vascular dementia, too, and everything you're reporting is just like what she went through, minus the loyal husband. I'm reliving it, a bit, as I read your posts (not that you shouldn't post!). I feel bad that I'm not chiming in with words of encouragement, but all I can say is, it'll pass. Of course her progress through the disease won't exactly mirror my mom's, but the stages are common to all who suffer it, and it's all transient. One stage may seem to last a long time, and you'll think this is how it's gonna be, and then it changes. There are drugs that can slow down the rate of the strokes, but after a while we stopped giving them to mom, because it was pointless. We always want to fight against the inevitable, and sometimes the best thing for everyone is to let it happen as it happens. Your brother-the-doctor has probably said the same things our doctors said. If there were a way to make her better, to bring her back, that would be different, but there isn't. Comfort and safety is the only priority now. I'm so so sorry you're all going through this; it's horrible and heartbreaking, and I wish I had some comforting wise thing to say, but all I've got is, it'll pass. And don't be angry with yourself. That's important too.

The people at the ALF really need to chill, Consuela. I'm so sorry about another ER visit, but it sounds like you had a good time with your siblings last night.

Trying to and failing at not having each of: anxiety attack/migraine/eyelid twitch.

You're having a very stressful day. Tea?

Best comfort wishes, Suela. And enough good wine without having too much.

On the GeoGuessr, are people looking for landmarks/signs/whatever and then googling? Because that's all I can figure to do. (Except for one slightly blurry rural vista that I just went "That seems Ohio-ish," and I'll be damned -- it was indeed northwestern Ohio.)

One of my vistas showed a school field trip, with all the kids holding a string to keep them in line, in Andalusia, Spain. And then a picture of that field trip turned up on Picasa: [link]

GeoGuesser is blocked by work.

you know what isn't though and is great for passing a slow Friday waiting for emails? The Fug Girls. I had not been on their site for yonks. I still liked the scrolling site better from way back, but it's still a good time, less snarky though - really short posts.

So movers are scheduled for a week from today. I should be able to get everything packed up by then. And the movers have climate controlled storage, so I figured I'd just go with that and cut out the middle man of a different storage facility. One more thing down.

checks another item off of list

I'm going on the Ohio-ish approach. And when in doubt, guess Australia.

On the GeoGuessr, are people looking for landmarks/signs/whatever and then googling?

Yes; street signs; notices; websites on advertising hoardings. Sometimes signs in Japanese or Korean can also be in English; cyrillic, not so much. Once I ended up on a square somewhere in Russia and all I could do was turn around in circles. I guessed Siberia (there was snow on the ground), but it turns out Siberia is big.

The quality of some of the pictures is so much worse than others. When you finally find a sign and you can't read it properly, that's so frustrating!

And when in doubt, guess Australia.

For me, it's usually somewhere in South America