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#28
#28
VolNExile said:
Where the hell have you been? (Fair enough to ask the same of me, I realize)

I’ve been in Memphis every 3-4 weeks since Feb as my mother’s health gets shakier.

Corky’s on Poplar has kept me semi-sane
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Prayers to you and your mother. Mine is going through dementia. So cruel.
 
#29
#29
Volzonya said:
Prayers to you and your mother. Mine is going through dementia. So cruel.
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Thank you, and same back to your mom. It’s never easy watching your parent suffer with these things. “Cruel” is the only word for it! I’d rather have her here with me, but she’s determined to live in her home until she dies, and I will support that as best as I can.

After arduous, hellish testing, they have decided that she doesn’t have dementia (she’s fine with long-term memory, reasoning, “common sense”, etc.), but she has hypertensive encephalopathy instead. For some period of months, her blood pressure was up, not crazy up but probably in the 150’s-160’s systolic, and caused brain damage (encephalopathy).

Her short-term memory is comically and tragically shot, unable to remember anything that happened in the last hour, last day, last week, last month. She’s on BP meds now, but I can always tell when it creeps up, because she will call me, anxious and confused, about some little thing like who is taking her to her hair appointment, or has she already had her hair appointment. When I ask her what her BP was that morning on her home BP cuff, it’s always in the mid-130’s or higher. I have never known anyone so exquisitely sensitive to relatively minor BP changes.

She has always been ridiculously healthy (no smoking, no drinking, active, and lean as a whip), but I guess that at 92, something is gonna getcha.

Bless her heart, she voluntarily hung up the car keys after doing a test drive to where she has played bridge every month for the last 40 years, and got lost. That’s very rare, and I know how lucky I am to have avoided that horrible argument.

If anyone has elderly family or friends with a sudden onset of mental status changes, especially so narrowly focused, get their BP checked. This is not all that well-known in the primary care field. Her internist is still very dismissive of the daily fluctuations in her blood pressure and how they affect her. :banghead2:

Again, best wishes to your mom, and to you and the rest of your family. It’s heartbreaking to see someone who successfully battled the Memphis property tax assessment board for 30-40 years suddenly unable to make sense of her checkbook.
 
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#31
#31
Charlie Kelly said:
I’m happy for you. Golden State was terrible for roughly 40 straight years. That’s a really long wait. Good news is that it’s not just one title and instead it’s an actual dynasty. And it doesn’t look to be ending anytime soon either.

These Warriors are right there with the Kobe/Shaq Lakers as potentially the best team of this century and in the conversation for one of the top 5 best teams of all time. But all the rule changes over the years make comparisons difficult. That hand-check rule change still bugs me to this day. You used to be able to get away with a lot more contact on defense.
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Slow down a bit. Don't forget they've beaten exactly 1 good team not missing a superstar...if not 2. Cavs in 2017 was their only real impressive definitive series win. Aside from that...Cavs w/o Love and Kyrie, Clips w/o Paul, Spurs w/o Leonard (cheapshot) and Rockets w/o Paul. Maybe they still win those series, but unfortunately we won't ever know. But i think these facts need considered when comparing them to the greats.

GSW is badass and fun to watch. But let's not make them the best ever just yet....especially considering the rule changes you mentioned. Not sure these guys are getting shots off vs Detroit/Boston in the 80s or San Antonio more recently.
 
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#44
#44
Mang da sun be down and it still be hotta dan a set a jumper cables at ma auntees bbq! Lawd!
 
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