My mother doesn’t call me anymore. She has a phone, one of those Jitterbugs you see advertised on TV. They’re supposed to be perfect for older people, with big buttons. The numbers of all her family members, including me, are programmed in it. The phone’s red, one of my mother’s favorite colors…. The grip of dementia intensified in 2016, and that May, the vascular dementia diagnosis was determined.
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