I know I have missed 250 posts in this thread, but Lex and GA are right. If you don't live around this disease, you have no business making any kind of comment. My mom has gone from coherent to not being able to string a sentence together in just over 2 years. Pat should have been encouraged to retire as soon as she was diagnosed. It may be that Tyler actually asked Hart to do this. Believe me, when someone with this disease thinks that their family member is trying to get them to do something that they "think" that they don't have to or want to do, it gets ugly and stays ugly. That is why I think that Tyler may have gone behind her back to get her "retired". I love Pat and wish her the best and pray for her family, because in the long run, they will suffer much more than she will. I don't know how to describe this disease and watching it take someone away from you to any of you. It is truly one of the worst things that I have ever seen.